Holographic QCD with Dynamical Flavors

Understand

Gravity solutions describing the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model of holographic QCD with dynamical flavors are presented.

• The field theory is studied in the Veneziano limit, at first order in the ratio of the number of flavors and colors.
• The gravity solutions are analytic and dual to the field theory either in the confined, low temperature phase or in the deconfined, high temperature phase with small baryonic charge density.
• The phase diagram and the flavor contributions to vacuum (e.g.