Nucleon Form Factors and Hidden Symmetry in Holographic QCD

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates how holographic QCD naturally incorporates vector dominance in electromagnetic form factors for mesons and baryons, using an infinite tower of vector mesons approximated by the lowest four, achieving accurate results for low momentum transfers.

Contribution

It provides a derivation of vector dominance in holographic QCD and shows how a finite approximation of the vector meson tower can accurately reproduce form factors.

Findings

Charge and magnetic moment sum rules are saturated within a few percent.

Form factors are computed accurately for Q^2 less than 1 GeV^2.

The approach identifies observables reliably computed within the model.

Abstract

The vector dominance of the electromagnetic form factors both for mesons and baryons arises naturally in holographic QCD, where both the number of colors and the 't Hooft coupling are taken to be very large, offering a bona-fide derivation of the notion of vector dominance. The crucial ingredient for this is the infinite tower of vector mesons in the approximations made which share features that are characteristic of the quenched approximation in lattice QCD. We approximate the infinite sum by contributions from the lowest four vector mesons of the tower which turn out to saturate the charge and magnetic moment sum rules within a few percent and compute them totally free of unknown parameters for momentum transfers Q^2 less than 1GeV^2. We identify certain observables that can be reliably computed within the approximations and others that are not, and discuss how the improvement of the latter can enable one to bring holographic QCD closer to QCD proper.