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Light dilaton in a metastable vacuum
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John Roughley
Physical Review D, Volume: 103, Issue: 4
Swansea University Authors:
Maurizio Piai , John Roughley
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DOI (Published version): 10.1103/physrevd.103.046009
Abstract
We identify a parametrically light dilaton by studying the perturbations of metastable vacua along a branch of regular supergravity backgrounds that are dual to four-dimensional confining field theories. The branch includes also stable and unstable solutions. The former encompass, as a special case,...
| Published in: | Physical Review D |
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| ISSN: | 2470-0010 2470-0029 |
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American Physical Society (APS)
2021
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56147 |
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We identify a parametrically light dilaton by studying the perturbations of metastable vacua along a branch of regular supergravity backgrounds that are dual to four-dimensional confining field theories. The branch includes also stable and unstable solutions. The former encompass, as a special case, the geometry proposed by Witten as a holographic model of confinement. The latter approach a supersymmetric solution, by enhancing a condensate in the dual field theory. A phase transition separates the space of stable backgrounds from the metastable ones. In proximity of the phase transition, one of the lightest scalar states inherits some of the properties of the dilaton, despite not being particularly light. |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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4 |