Speaker
Mätti Jarvinen
Description
I discuss holographic QCD in the Veneziano limit (large N_c and N_f with x=N_f/N_c fixed) where quarks are fully backreacted to gluons. When all quark flavors are identical, QCD in this limit has two parameters in addition to Lambda_QCD, namely the quark mass and the theta angle. I demostrate how these parameters can be included in holographic QCD, and discuss the resulting phase diagram. At small quark mass the results from holography agree with effective field theory. In particular, the masses of the pion and the eta prime meson satisfy the expected relations.
