Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2011-05-16
JHEP 1107:063,2011
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
17 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1007/JHEP07(2011)063
We study the dynamics of quenched fundamental matter in $\mathcal{N}=2^\ast$ supersymmetric large $N_c$ $SU(N_c)$ Yang-Mills theory, extending our earlier work to finite temperature. We use probe D7-branes in the holographically dual thermalized generalization of the $\mathcal{N}=2^\ast$ Pilch-Warner gravitational background found by Buchel and Liu. Such a system provides an opportunity to study how key features of the dynamics are affected by being in a non-conformal setting where there is an intrinsic scale, set here by the mass, $m_H$, of a hypermultiplet. Such studies are motivated by connections to experimental studies of the quark-gluon plasma at RHIC and LHC, where the microscopic theory of the constituents, QCD, has a scale, $\Lambda_{\rm QCD}$. We show that the binding energy of mesons in the $\mathcal{N}=2^\ast$ theory is increased in the presence of the scale $m_H$, and that subsequently the meson-melting temperature is higher than for the conformal case.
Albash Tameem
Johnson Clifford V.
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