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Holographic Hadrons in a Confining Finite Density Medium

AUTHORS

Y.Seo, J.P.Shock, S.J.Sin, D.Zoakos

DATE PUBLISHED

20 Dec 2009

Abstract

We study a sector of the hadron spectrum in the presence of finite baryon density. We use a non-supersymmetric gravity dual to a confining guage theory which exhibits a running dilaton. The interaction of mesons with the finite density medium is encoded in the dual theory by a force balancing between flavor D7-branes and a baryon vertex provided by a wrapped D5-brane. When the current quark mass m_q is sufficiently large, the meson mass reduces, exhibiting an interesting spectral flow as we increase the baryon density while it has a more complicated behaviour for very small m_q.