QCD worldsheet axion from the bootstrap

Autor: Adwait Gaikwad, Victor Gorbenko, Andrea L. Guerrieri
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2024, Iss 1, Pp 1-32 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2024)090
Popis: Abstract The worldsheet axion plays a crucial role in the dynamics of the Yang-Mills confining flux tubes. According to the lattice measurements, its mass is of order the string tension and its coupling is close to a certain critical value. Using the S-matrix Bootstrap, we construct non-perturbative 2 → 2 branon scattering amplitudes which also feature a weakly coupled axion resonance with these properties. We study the extremal bootstrap amplitudes in detail and show that the axion plays a dominant role in their UV completion in two distinct regimes, in one of which it cannot be considered a parametrically light particle. We conjecture that the actual flux tube amplitudes exhibit a similar behavior.
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