The Flavoured BFSS Model at High Temperature

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We study the high temperature series expansion of the Berkooz-Douglas matrix model which describes the D0/D4--brane system.

• At high temperature the model is weakly coupled and we develop the series to second order.
• We check our results against the high temperature regime of the bosonic model (without fermions) and find excellent agreement.
• We track the temperature dependence of the bosonic model and find backreaction of the fundamental fields lifts the zero temperature adjoint mass degeneracy.