Henrique Boschi-Filho

Gauge/string duality and scalar glueball mass ratios

It has been shown by Polchinski and Strassler that the scaling of high energy QCD scattering amplitudes can be obtained from string theory. They considered an AdS slice as an approximation for the dual space of a confining gauge theory. Here we use this approximation to estimate in a very simple way the ratios of scalar glueball masses imposing Dirichlet boundary conditions on the string dilaton field. These ratios are in good agreement with the results in the literature. We also find that they do not depend on the size of the slice.

QCD/String holographic mapping and glueball mass spectrum

Abstract.Recently Polchinski and Strassler reproduced the high energy QCD scaling at fixed angles from a gauge string duality inspired by the AdS/CFT correspondence. In their approach a confining gauge theory is taken as approximately dual to an AdS space with an IR cut-off. Considering such an approximation (AdS slice) we found a one to one holographic mapping between bulk and boundary scalar fields. Associating the bulk fields with dilatons and the boundary fields with glueballs of the confining gauge theory we also found the same high energy QCD scaling. Here, using this holographic mapping, we give a simple estimate for the mass ratios of the glueballs assuming the AdS slice approximation to be valid at low energies. We also compare these results to those coming from supergravity and lattice QCD.

Glueball Regge trajectories from gauge/string duality and the Pomeron

The spectrum of light baryons and mesons has been reproduced recently by Brodsky and Teramond from a holographic dual to QCD inspired in the AdS/CFT correspondence. They associate fluctuations about the AdS geometry with four-dimensional angular momenta of the dual QCD states. We use a similar approach to estimate masses of glueball states with different spins and their excitations. We consider Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions and find approximate linear Regge trajectories for these glueballs. In particular the Neumann case is consistent with the Pomeron trajectory.

On a Holographic Model for Confinement/Deconfinement

We study the thermodynamics of the hard wall model, which consists of the introduction of an infrared cutoff in asymptotically AdS spaces. This is a toy model for confining backgrounds in the context of the gauge/gravity correspondence. We use holographic renormalization and reproduce the existence of a Hawking-Page phase transition recently discussed by Herzog. We also show that the entropy jumps from

Deep inelastic scattering from gauge string duality in the soft wall model

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Heavy quark potential at finite temperature from gauge-string duality

to

Black-hole quasinormal modes and scalar glueballs in a finite-temperature AdS/QCD model

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Three methods for calculating the Feynman propagator

, which reinforces the interpretation of this transition as the gravity dual of confinement/deconfinement. We also show that similar results hold for the phenomenologically motivated soft wall model, underlining the potential universality of our analysis.

Deep inelastic scattering from gauge string duality in D3-D7 brane model

Deep inelastic structure functions have been calculated by Polchinski and Strassler in gauge/string duality introducing a hard infrared (IR) cut off in AdS space. Here we investigate this problem using a soft IR cut off that leads to linear Regge trajectories for mesons. We calculate the structure functions for scalar particles in the large x regime where supergravity approximation holds and the small x regime where massive string states contribute. We also propose a hybrid model to calculate structure functions for fermions in the supergravity approximation. In the deep inelastic limit our results are in agreement with those obtained using a hard cut off.

QCD/string holographic mapping and high-energy scattering amplitudes

A static string in an AdS Schwarzschild space is dual to a heavy quark-antiquark pair in a gauge theory at high temperature. This space is nonconfining in the sense that the energy is finite for infinite quark-antiquark separation. We introduce an infrared cutoff in this space and calculate the corresponding string energy. We find a deconfining phase transition at a critical temperature T{sub C}. Above T{sub C}, the string tension vanishes representing the deconfined phase. Below T{sub C}, we find a linear confining behavior for large quark-antiquark separation. This simple phenomenological model leads to the appropriate zero temperature limit, corresponding to the Cornell potential and also describes a thermal deconfining phase transition. However, the temperature corrections to the string tension do not recover the expected results for low temperatures.