Strongly bound mesons at finite temperature and in magnetic fields from AdS/CFT

TL;DR

This paper investigates the behavior of mesons in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory with added flavors, analyzing their spectrum at finite temperature and magnetic fields using the gauge/gravity duality, with high-spin mesons modeled by semiclassical strings.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of meson spectra under finite temperature and magnetic fields within the AdS/CFT framework, focusing on high-spin mesons with semiclassical string descriptions.

Findings

Meson spectra are affected by temperature and magnetic fields.

High-spin mesons can be modeled by semiclassical string configurations.

The study offers insights into meson stability and dissociation in thermal and magnetic backgrounds.

Abstract

We study mesons in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory with fundamental flavors added at large 't Hooft coupling using the gauge/gravity correspondence. High-spin mesons are well described by using semiclassical string configurations. We determine the meson spectrum at finite temperature and in a background magnetic field.