2008/09/30 by Koji Hashimoto · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Baryon #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Mathematical physics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Nucleon #Nucleus #Particle physics #Physics #Quantum chromodynamics #hep-th #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1143/ptp.121.241
published as Prog. Theor. Phys. 121 (2009), 241 · 13 pages, 2 figures; v3:reference added, minor corrections
arxiv created 2008/10/22 · openalex publication_date 2009/02/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2020/07/02 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We provide a dual gravity description of heavy atomic nuclei, via AdS/CFT correspondence. In holographic QCD such as Sakai-Sugimoto model, baryons are D-branes wrapping a sphere in 10 dimensional curved spacetime, so any nucleus is a collection of A such D-branes where A is mass number of the nucleus. Quantum theory on the nucleus is ADHM-like U(A) Yang-Mills-Higgs theory on the sphere. Taking a large A limit (corresponding to heavy nuclei) leads to a dual gravity describing collective excitaions of constituent nucleons of the heavy nucleus. This dual gravity computes spectra of the heavy nucleus, and gives discrete states whose gap roughly agrees with experimental nuclear data.