TY - JOUR
T1 - Pion form factor in improved holographic QCD backgrounds
AU - Kwee, Herry J.
AU - Lebed, Richard
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2008/6/11
Y1 - 2008/6/11
N2 - We extend a recent numerical calculation of the pion electromagnetic form factor Fπ(Q2) in holographic QCD to study two important issues regarding the behavior of fields in the bulk. First, we show that using a chiral symmetry-breaking field formally satisfying the boundary conditions of the "soft-wall" model changes numerical results very little from the earlier calculation that ignores these constraints. Second, we use a background field that interpolates between "hard-wall" and soft-wall models to obtain an improved model that reproduces the desirable phenomenological features of both. In all cases, Fπ for large Q2 is shallower than data, an effect that can be cured by relaxing the fit to one of the static observables, particularly the decay constant fπ.
AB - We extend a recent numerical calculation of the pion electromagnetic form factor Fπ(Q2) in holographic QCD to study two important issues regarding the behavior of fields in the bulk. First, we show that using a chiral symmetry-breaking field formally satisfying the boundary conditions of the "soft-wall" model changes numerical results very little from the earlier calculation that ignores these constraints. Second, we use a background field that interpolates between "hard-wall" and soft-wall models to obtain an improved model that reproduces the desirable phenomenological features of both. In all cases, Fπ for large Q2 is shallower than data, an effect that can be cured by relaxing the fit to one of the static observables, particularly the decay constant fπ.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.115007
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.115007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:45249083833
VL - 77
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
SN - 1550-7998
IS - 11
M1 - 115007
ER -