Published April 14, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

String Splitting and Strong Coupling Meson Decay

  • 1. Departament Estructura i Constituents de la Materia, Universitat de Barcelona and IFAE, Diagonal 647, E-08028 Barcelona (Spain)
  • 2. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven (Belgium)

Description

We study the decay of high spin mesons using the gauge-string theory correspondence. The rate of the process is calculated by studying the splitting of a macroscopic string intersecting a D-brane. The result is applied to the decay of mesons in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory with a small number of flavors and in a gravity dual of large N QCD. In QCD the decay of high spin mesons is found to be heavily suppressed in the regime of validity of the supergravity description

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
96
Journal Issue
14
Journal Page Range
p. 141601-141601.4
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

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(c) 2006 The American Physical Society