Non critical holographic models of the thermal phases of QCD

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We analyze the thermal phases of a non critical holographic model of QCD.

• The model is based on a six dimensional background of $N_c$ non extremal D4 branes wrapping a spacial circle of radius $R$ and the compactified Euclidean time direction of radius $\beta=1/T$.
• We place in this background stacks of $N_f$ D4 and anti-D4 flavor probe branes with a separation distance $L$ at large radial direction.
• %The dual theory is a 4+1 dimensional $SU(N_c)$ gauge theory %compactified on a radius $R$ with anti-periodic boundary conditions for the fermions.