Speaker
Kory Stiffler
(University of Iowa)
Description
The gauge/gravity correspondence has provided an avenue where modern superstring theory can come full circle back to nuclear physics.
For an SU(N) gauge theory, certain low energy configurations of mesons with k quarks and k anti-quarks, have been studies in both the Hamiltonian formulation of Yang-Mills and lattice gauge theories. Utilizing the gauge/gravity correspondence of string theory one can identify geometries that closely correspond to these k-strings in both 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions. We compare the ground state energies and quantum corrections that are calculated from the gauge/gravity correspondence to the results of lattice gauge theories and Hamiltonian dynamics.
Author
Kory Stiffler
(University of Iowa)
Co-authors
Christopher Doran
(University of Iowa)
Leopoldo Pando-Zayas
(University of Michigan)
Vincent Rodgers
(University of Iowa)
