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Chiral Dynamics of Baryons from String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study baryons in an AdS/CFT model of QCD by Sakai and Sugimoto, realized as small instantons with fundamental string hairs. We introduce an effective field theory of the baryons in the five-dimensional setting, and show that the instanton interpretation implies a particular magnetic coupling. Dimensional reduction to four dimensions reproduces the usual chiral effective action, and in particular we estimate the axial coupling gAg_A between baryons and pions and the magnetic dipole moments, both of which are proportional to NcN_c. We extrapolate to finite NcN_c and discuss subleading corrections.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0701276,
  title  = {Chiral Dynamics of Baryons from String Theory},
  author = {Deog Ki Hong and Mannque Rho and Ho-Ung Yee and Piljin Yi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0701276},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

4 pages, typos fixed, discussions reworded to clarify a unit, a reference updated

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