Absorption by double-centered D3-branes and the Coulomb branch of N=4 SYM theory

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2000

Authors

Costa, MS (Author) Other

Journal

Title: JHEP: Journal of High Energy Physics

Vol. 4

Pages: 1-23

ISSN: 1029-8479

Publisher: Springer

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FOS: Natural sciences > Physical sciences

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Authenticus ID: P-007-RXA

Abstract (EN): We calculate the classical cross-section for absorption of a minimally coupled scalar in the double-centered D3-brane geometry. The dual field theory has gauge symmetry broken to S(U(N-1) x U(N-2)) and is on the Coulomb branch of N = 4 Super Yang-Mills theory. Our analysis is valid at energy scales much smaller than the W particles mass, giving logarithmic corrections to the cross-section calculated at the IR conformal fixed points. These corrections are associated with deformations of the N = 4 Super Yang-Mills theory by irrelevant operators that break conformal invariance and correspond to processes where a virtual pair of gauge particles or a virtual pair of W bosons interact with the incident wave to create a pair of gauge particles.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific