Meson Potential Energy in a Non-Conformal Holographic Model

TL;DR

This paper investigates meson potential energy in a non-conformal holographic model at zero and finite temperature, revealing how non-conformality influences meson properties and dissociation in a strongly coupled plasma.

Contribution

It introduces a non-conformal holographic model to study meson potential energy, linking model parameters to conformal symmetry breaking and meson dissociation phenomena.

Findings

Meson potential energy measures non-conformality of the theory.

Cornell potential parameters depend on the conformal symmetry breaking scale.

Meson dissociation length increases with non-conformality and decreases with temperature.

Abstract

We study the meson potential energy in a non-conformal model at both zero and finite temperature via gauge/gravity duality. This model consists of five-dimensional Einstein gravity coupled to a scalar field with a non-trivial potential. Interestingly, at both zero and finite temperature we find that the relative meson potential energy can be considered as a measure of non-conformality of the theory. At zero temperature we show that parameters of the Cornell potential, i.e. Coulomb strength parameter $\kappa$ and constant $C$ depends on the energy scale $\Lambda$ that breaks conformal symmetry and the difference between the number of degrees of freedom of UV and IR fixed points $\Delta N$ while QCD string tension $\sigma_s$ just depends on the $\Lambda$. At finite temperature we see that there is a melting length $l_{m\ell}$ where beyond that the meson dissociates in the plasma and by increasing $\Lambda$ the value of $l_{m\ell}$ increases while its value decreases by increasing the temperature.