2006/09/01 by Daniel Arean, Daniel Areán, Alfonso V. Ramallo +2 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2006.09.010
published as Phys.Lett.B641:393-400,2006 · 15 pages, LaTeX
arxiv created 2006/09/01 · openalex publication_date 2006/09/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/02
We consider the defect theory obtained by intersecting D3- and D5-branes along two common spatial directions. We work in the approximation in which the D5-brane is a probe in the AdS5×S5 background. By adding worldvolume flux to the D5-brane and choosing an appropriate embedding of the probe in AdS5×S5, one gets a supersymmetric configuration in which some of the D3-branes recombine with the D5-brane. We check this fact by showing that the D5-brane can be regarded as a system of polarized D3-branes. On the field theory side this corresponds to the Higgs branch of the defect theory, where some of the fundamental hypermultiplet fields living on the intersection acquire a vacuum expectation value. We study the spectrum of mesonic bound states of the defect theory in this Higgs branch and show that it is continuous and gapless.