2024/05/20 by Zohar Komargodski, Komargodski, Zohar, Siwei Zhong +1 · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Superconducting Materials and Applications #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2405.12005
We study junctions between confining strings. We show that the effective theory of such junctions is very predictive with only one new parameter, the junction's mass, controlling the first couple of terms in the expansion in the system size. By open-closed duality these considerations about the baryon junction map to interaction vertices of closed strings. Therefore, we calculate the interaction vertices of closed strings in theories such as Yang-Mills theory. We find some surprising selection rules for string interactions in 3+1 dimensions. Requiring perturbative stability and that the string coupling is weak, we suggest constraints on the junction's mass.