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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
QCD and a holographic model of hadrons
Joshua Erlich1, Emanuel Katz, Dam T Son
1Department of Physics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795, USA.
Abstract:
We propose a five-dimensional framework for modeling low-energy properties of QCD. In the simplest three parameter model we compute masses, decay rates and couplings of the lightest mesons. The model fits experimental data to within 10%. The framework is a holographic version of the QCD sum rules, motivated by the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence. The model naturally incorporates properties of QCD dictated by chiral symmetry, which we demonstrate by deriving the Gell-Mann-Oakes-Renner relationship for the pion mass.
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