A Solitonic Approach to Holographic Nuclear Physics

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We discuss nuclear physics in the Sakai-Sugimoto model in the limit of large number $N_c$ of colors and large 't Hooft coupling $\lambda$.

• In this limit the individual baryons are described by classical solitons whose size is much smaller than the typical distance at which they settle in a nuclear bound state.
• We can thus use the linear approximation outside the instanton cores to compute the interaction potential.
• We find the classical geometry of nuclear bound states for baryon number up to eight.