7–9 May 2012
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Holographic walking technicolor and stability of technibranes

8 May 2012, 15:30
15m
207 (Lawrence)

207

Lawrence

Speaker

Prof. Tonnis Ter Veldhuis (Macalester College)

Abstract:

The gravity dual to a N=1 SUSY gauge theory which exhibits an approximately conformal "walking" region while strongly interacting is considered. Stacks of D7-D7bar techni-branes corresponding to the addition of techni-fermions in the gauge theory are embedded in the ten dimensional space-time. Fluctuations of the embedded branes into complementary space are studied. The scalar and pseudoscalar meson mass spectrum is obtained as a function of the bulk coordinate distance cut-off, and the range of stability of the brane embedding is determined.

Author

Prof. Tonnis Ter Veldhuis (Macalester College)

Co-authors

Sherwin Love (purdue university) Prof. Thomas Clark (Purdue University)

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