Baryons and the Chern-Simons term in holographic QCD with three flavors

TL;DR

This paper investigates the role of a new gauge-invariant Chern-Simons term in holographic QCD with three flavors, successfully deriving correct baryon states and mass formulas through collective coordinate quantization.

Contribution

It introduces a novel gauge-invariant Chern-Simons term in holographic QCD that resolves previous issues and accurately describes baryon states.

Findings

New gauge-invariant CS term constructed as a 6D integral

Correct baryon states obtained via quantization with the new CS term

Mass formula for baryons derived successfully

Abstract

We study dynamical baryons in the holographic QCD model of Sakai and Sugimoto in the case of three flavors and with special interest in the construction of the Chern-Simons (CS) term. The baryon classical solution in this model is given by the BPST instanton, and we carry out the collective coordinate quantization of the solution. The CS term should give rise to a first class constraint which selects baryon states with right spins. However, the original CS term written in terms of the CS 5-form does not work. We instead propose a new CS term which is gauge invariant and is given as an integral over a six dimensional space having as its boundary the original five dimensional spacetime of the holographic model. Collective coordinate quantization using our new CS term leads to correct baryon states and their mass formula.