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Interpolating between low and high energy QCD via a 5D Yang-Mills model

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Johannes Hirn, Veronica Sanz

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 5 Jul 2005 · 72 references

Pith's verdict: A clean, honest 5D Yang-Mills paper whose real payload is the sum-rule and regularization machinery, not the condensate story the abstract leans on.

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A five-dimensional Yang-Mills theory reproduces the pion, an infinite tower of vector and axial mesons, and the soft high-energy behavior that QCD requires.

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The paper asks whether a single five-dimensional Yang-Mills field, with an $SU(N_f) times SU(N_f)$ gauge symmetry and one compact extra dimension, can stand in for the mesons of massless QCD across the whole energy range. Chiral symmetry is broken not by hand but by boundary conditions placed on the far brane, away from where the electroweak sources sit, so the breaking is spontaneous and the pion appears as the Goldstone mode of the fifth component of the axial field. Because all the spin-1 mesons descend from one 5D field, their couplings are overlap integrals of the same wave-functions, and 5D locality forces an infinite set of sum rules relating those couplings to the chiral low-energy constants. The authors show that those sum rules are exactly what is needed to make the vector form factor obey an unsubtracted dispersion relation and pion-pion forward scattering a once-subtracted one, which is the soft high-energy behavior QCD demands. Along the way the model predicts the chiral constants $L_2 = 2L_1$, $L_3 = -6L_1$ and $L_9 + L_{10} = 0$, reproduces the partonic logarithm in the vector and axial two-point functions for an AdS metric, and gives a rule for regularizing divergent sums over resonances without breaking chiral symmetry.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing device is the Kaluza-Klein completeness relation, $(2/g_5^2) sqrt{g} g^{mu nu} g^{rho sigma} sum_n phi_{Vn}(z) phi_{Vn}(z') = eta^{mu nu} eta^{rho sigma} delta(z - z')$, applied to overlap integrals of the resonance wave-functions. It converts infinite sums over resonance couplings into bulk integrals of polynomials in the function $alpha(z)$, the profile that carries the pion's derivative and is fixed by a massless spin-1 equation with the unusual boundary conditions $alpha(l_0)=1$, $alpha(l_1)=0$. The pion itself is built as a Wilson line running from the IR brane to the UV brane, $U(x) = xi_R(x,l_0) xi_L^dagger(x,l_0)$, which transforms as a Goldstone field under the residual 4D chiral symmetry and lets the authors keep the symmetry manifest at every step instead of gauge-fixing it away. The same completeness relation, used on the difference of vector and axial sums rather than on each separately, is what supplies the paper's prescription for handling divergent resonance sums: the divergence cancels between the two towers because both come from the same extra dimension.

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Core claim

The central claim is that 5D locality, not any tuning of resonance parameters, is what delivers the high-energy behavior QCD requires. Working with $SU(N_f) times SU(N_f)$ Yang-Mills on an interval, the authors derive four sum rules from the completeness of the Kaluza-Klein wave-functions: $sum_n f_{Vn} g_{Vn} = 2L_9$, $sum_n f_{Vn} g_{Vn} M_{Vn}^2 = f^2$, $sum_n g_{Vn}^2 = 8L_1$ and $sum_n g_{Vn}^2 M_{Vn}^2 = f^2/3$. Feeding the first two into the twice-subtracted expression for the pion vector form factor collapses it to an unsubtracted form, $F(q^2) = (1/f^2) sum_n f_{Vn} g_{Vn} M_{Vn}^4/(M_{Vn}^2 - q^2)$, so the two subtractions are shown to be unnecessary rather than assumed away. The same machinery makes the axial form factor vanish identically, gives a once-subtracted dispersion relation for Goldstone-boson forward scattering, and produces an infinite tower of generalized Weinberg sum rules for the left-right correlator, which falls off faster than any power of momentum because the symmetry breaking sits at a finite distance in the fifth dimension. For the AdS metric the two-point functions reproduce the partonic logarithm with $N_c = 12 pi^2/g_4^2$, numerically about 4.3 when $f_pi$ and $M_rho$ are used as inputs.

Load-bearing premise

The whole construction rests on the metric staying exactly conformal down to the infrared brane, which is what makes every local order parameter, including the quark condensate, absent; the authors acknowledge that restoring condensates requires deforming the metric with free coefficients and state that they only sketch the consequences, so it is not shown that such deformations leave the sum rules and the unsubtracted dispersion relation intact.

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  • The vector form factor of the pion satisfies an unsubtracted dispersion relation for any metric, generalizing what in four-dimensional hidden-local-symmetry models had to be imposed by fixing a free parameter.
  • Forward Goldstone-boson scattering obeys a once-subtracted dispersion relation, matching the Froissart bound, with the subtraction constant vanishing by Adler's theorem.
  • The left-right correlator obeys an infinite family of generalized Weinberg sum rules, so no local order parameter, and in particular no quark condensate, appears in its operator product expansion.
  • With an asymptotically AdS metric the vector and axial two-point functions reproduce the perturbative QCD logarithm, fixing $N_c = 12 pi^2/g_4^2$ and giving the expected large-$N_c$ scaling of $f^2$, the $L_i$, and the resonance decay constants.
  • The lightest vector meson dominates the sum rules numerically, with the $rho$ saturating the $g_{Vn}^2$ sum to better than a part in a thousand, while the KSFR-II ratio comes out near 3 rather than 2.

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  • The paper's regularization rule for divergent resonance sums, rewriting them as bulk integrals before taking the UV regulator away, is a general template: any 4D model built by deconstructing a fifth dimension should inherit it, which suggests the older practice of truncating Kaluza-Klein towers was the source of several apparent inconsistencies rather than the models themselves.
  • Because the generalized Weinberg sum rules hold for every moment beyond the first, the model makes a sharper bet than QCD does: real QCD with a nonzero quark condensate satisfies only the first two. Extracting a third moment from measured resonance parameters would therefore discriminate between this class of models and QCD more cleanly than the usual two-sum-rule checks.
  • The identical vanishing of the axial form factor, and hence of $a_1 to pi gamma$, follows from $L_9 + L_{10} = 0$ together with $f_{An} = -2sqrt{2} alpha_{An}$; since the measured $a_1 to pi gamma$ rate is nonzero, this is the model's most exposed prediction and the natural place to look for the higher-derivative or metric-deformation corrections the authors defer.
  • The numerical shortfall $N_c approx 4.3$ against the physical 3, obtained by fitting $f_pi$ and $M_rho$, is the kind of discrepancy that the sketched infrared metric deformations are meant to absorb; it would be worth checking whether any single deformation can simultaneously fix $N_c$, the too-heavy $rho'$ and $rho''$ masses, and the $rho to pi pi$ width.
Original abstract

We describe the Goldstone bosons of massless QCD together with an infinite number of spin-1 mesons. The field content of the model is SU(Nf)xSU(Nf) Yang-Mills in a compact extra-dimension. Electroweak interactions reside on one brane. Breaking of chiral symmetry occurs due to the boundary conditions on the other brane, away from our world, and is therefore spontaneous. Our implementation of the holographic recipe maintains chiral symmetry explicit throughout. For intermediate energies, we extract resonance couplings. These satisfy sum rules due to the 5D nature of the model. These sum rules imply, when taking the high energy limit, that perturbative QCD constraints are satisfied. We also illustrate how the 5D model implies a definite prescription for handling infinite sums over 4D resonances. Taking the low energy limit, we recover the chiral expansion and the corresponding non-local order parameters. All local order parameters are introduced separately.

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We describe the Goldstone bosons of massless QCD together with an infinite number of spin-1 mesons. The field content of the model is SU(Nf)xSU(Nf) Yang-Mills in a compact extra-dimension. Electroweak interactions reside on one brane. Breaking of chiral symmetry occurs due to the boundary conditions on the other brane, away from our world, and is therefore spontaneous. Our implementation of the holographic recipe maintains chiral symmetry explicit throughout. For intermediate energies, we extract resonance couplings. These satisfy sum rules due to the 5D nature of the model. These sum rules imply, when taking the high energy limit, that perturbative QCD constraints are satisfied. We also illustrate how the 5D model implies a definite prescription for handling infinite sums over 4D resonances. Taking the low energy limit, we recover the chiral expansion and the corresponding non-local order parameters. All local order parameters are introduced separately.

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  • Actually, taking into account that $L_9=-L_10$ [ref] , we recover the result $C_22^W= - N_C/32π^2 f_π^2 L_10$ previously derived through the low-energy expansion of the Son-Yamamoto relation [ref] .

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  • Since in [ref] the chiral Lagrangian coefficients were calculated in the holographic dual setting, our predictions for low momentum can be compared with those of $χ$PT with the AdS $l_i$ coefficients calculated in [ref] .

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  • However, in the type of holographic models studied in this work one always has $ℓ_5 -ℓ_6/2 = L_10+L_9 =0$ at large $N_C$ [ref] .

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  • It is commonly believed, however, that different “reasonable” choices of $a(z)$ would not affect in a significant way the predictions for IR observables, like those we will compute in this paper.[This belief is supported by Ref. [ref] , in which IR predictions for flat and AdS$_5$ spaces were compared, and by Ref. [ref] , in which departures from AdS$_5$ were considered.

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  • Holographic QCD models [ref] have been constructed along the lines of the original conjectured AdS/CFT duality (equivalence) between a four-dimensional (4D) (conformal) large-N$_c$ gauge theory at strong coupling and a (classical) five-dimensional (5D) field theory in a curved gravitational background with Anti-de-Sitter metric [ref] , which can be summarized as follows [ref] : for every quantum operator $O(x)$ of the 4D (strongly coupled) gauge theory, there exists a corresponding 5D field $ϕ(x,z)$, whose value on the conformal boundary (taken at $z=ϵ→0$) $ϕ(x,0)≡ϕ_0(x)$, is identified, modulo some specific powers of $ϵ$, with the four-dimensional source of $O(x)$.

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  • We will in the following describe the so-called hard wall (HW) models [ref] .

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