Chiral symmetry breaking as open string tachyon condensation

被引:177
作者
Casero, Roberto
Kintsis, Elias
Paredes, Angel [1 ]
机构
[1] Ecole Polytech, CPHT, UMR, CNRS 7644, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[2] Univ Crete, Dept Phys, Iraklion 71003, Greece
关键词
gauge-gravity correspondence; tachyon condensation; QCD; chiral symmetry breaking; LARGE-N LIMIT; COUPLINGS; U(1);
D O I
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.07.009
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
We consider a general framework to Study holographically the dynamics of fundamental quarks in a confining gauge theory. Flavors are introduced by placing a set of (coincident) branes antibranes on a background dual to a confining color theory. The spectrum contains an open string tachyon and its condensation describes the U (N-f)(L) x U (N-f)(R) -> U(N-f)(V) symmetry breaking. By studying worldvolume gauge transformations of the flavor brane action, we obtain the QCD global anomalies and an IR condition that allows to fix the quark condensate in terms of the quark mass. We find the expected N-f(2) Goldstone bosons (for m(q) = 0), the Gell-Mann-Oakes-Renner relation (for m(q) small) and the eta' mass. Remarkably, the linear confinement behavior for the masses of highly excited spin-1 mesons, m(n)(2) similar to n is naturally reproduced. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:98 / 134
页数:37
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