"Supergravity Probing of Mesons of Confining Gauge Theories"

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Title Slide 00:00:00
Introduction 00:00:24
Outline 00:02:36
Outline II 00:04:10
Confinement from Supergravity 00:04:32
The additional Fields of the Background 00:06:05
Wilson Loops, Flux Tubes and 't Hooft Loops 00:06:57
Glueballs 00:09:32
Baryons 00:10:21
Instantons and U_r(1) Shiral Symmetry Breaking 00:11:37
Close to the boundary 00:13:36
Domain Walls of the KS and MN Models 00:14:10
Do we need to go beyond the Gauge Gravity 00:15:50
A warmup exercise D(P+4) probes in DP brane background 00:17:21
The DP-brane background in the decoupling limit 00:19:24
S_dbi 00:20:53
Reminder: The deformed conifold and the KS model 00:21:37
It is useful to rewrite the metric as follows 00:22:39
Where F_5 is the self-dual 00:23:55
Fundamental quarks from D7 probe brane 00:24:39
The deformed conifold is defined by 00:25:57
Figure 1 00:27:21
DP-brane probes in the RS background classical solution 00:29:18
Are these brane configurations solutions of the equations of motion? 00:30:39
Equations S_dbi and S_wz 00:32:41
The solutions satisfies the consistency condition of the RR-flux cancellation 00:33:45
Quadratic fluctuations around the probe configuration 00:37:05
u_ab is defined by 3rd party 00:39:20
Vector Fluctions 00:41:00
Substitute the mode expansion 00:42:14
The differential equation allows two independent solutions 00:43:16
By imposing a regulatory condition 00:44:06
Now let us discuss what is the regulatory condition to be imposed 00:44:42
Figure 2 00:45:51
Now let us discuss what is the regulatory condition to be imposed 00:46:07
Pseudo scalar fluctuations 00:48:56
Figures 3 and 4 overlaid 00:49:43
We obtain from this the following eigenvalues 00:50:52
Summary of the vector and pseudo scalar mesons 00:54:01
The non-vector modes are in fact pseudo scalars rather than scalars 00:54:52
Summary and Open Questions 00:56:07