Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2008-11-05
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Talk given by Yu.K. at the International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics (Diffraction 2008) in La Londe-les-Mau
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.3122211
We calculate the total cross section for the scattering of a quark--anti-quark dipole on a large nucleus at high energy for a strongly coupled N=4 super Yang-Mills theory using AdS/CFT correspondence. We model the nucleus by a metric of a shock wave in AdS_5. We then calculate the expectation value of the Wilson loop (the dipole) by finding the extrema of the Nambu-Goto action for an open string attached to the quark and antiquark lines of the loop in the background of an AdS_5 shock wave. We find two physically meaningful extremal string configurations. For both solutions we obtain the forward scattering amplitude N for the quark dipole--nucleus scattering. We study the onset of unitarity with increasing center-of-mass energy and transverse size of the dipole: we observe that for both solutions the saturation scale Q_s is independent of energy/Bjorken-x and depends on the atomic number of the nucleus as Q_s ~ A^{1/3}. Finally we observe that while one of the solutions we found corresponds to the pomeron intercept of \alpha_P = 2 found earlier in the literature, when extended to higher energy or larger dipole sizes it violates the black disk limit. The other solution we found respects the black disk limit and yields the pomeron intercept of \alpha_P = 1.5. We thus conjecture that the right pomeron intercept in gauge theories at strong coupling may be \alpha_P = 1.5.
Albacete Javier L.
Kovchegov Yuri V.
Taliotis Anastasios
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