Baryon Dissociation in a Strongly Coupled Plasma

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Using the dual string theory, we study a circular baryonic configuration in a wind of strongly coupled N=4 Yang-Mills plasma blowing in the plane of the baryon, before and after a quark has dissociated from it.

• A simple enough model that captures many interesting features is when there are four quarks in the baryon.
• As a step towards phenomenology, we compare representative dissociated configurations, and make some comments about their energetics and other properties.
• Related results that we find include the observation that the screening length formula L_s T ~ (1-v^2)^{1/4} obtained previously for other color singlet configurations, is robust for circular baryons as well.