Gauge/Gravity Duality and Hadron Physics at the Light-Front

Preprint number: CP3-Origins-2010-22
Authors: Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC, Stanford and CP3-Origins) and Guy F. de Teramond (Universidad de Costa Rica)
External link: arXiv.org

We discuss some remarkable features of the light-front holographic mapping of classical gravity in anti-de Sitter space modified by a confining dilaton background. In particular, we show that a positive-sign dilaton solution exp(+κ² z²) has better chances to describe the correct hadronic phenomenology than the negative solution exp(-κ² z²) extensively studied in the literature. We also show that the use of twist-scaling dimensions, instead of canonical dimensions, is required to give a good description of the spectrum and form factors of hadrons. Another key element is the explicit connection of AdS modes of total angular momentum J with the internal structure of hadrons and the proper identification of the orbital angular momentum of the constituents.