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Wilson Loops in the Higgs Phase of Large N Field Theories on the Conifold (2000)

Abstract
We study the quark-antiquark interaction in the large N limit of the superconformal field theory on D-3branes at a Calabi-Yau conical singularity. We compute the Wilson loop in the AdS_5xT^{11} supergravity background for the SU(2N)x SU(2N) theory. We also calculate the Wilson loop for the Higgs phase where the gauge group is broken to SU(N)x SU(N)x SU_D(N). This corresponds to a two center configuration with some of the branes at the singularity and the rest of them at a smooth point. The calculation exhibits the expected Coulomb dependence for the interaction. The angular distribution of the BPS states is different than the one for a spherical horizon.. Comment: Latex2e file. 19 pages. Final version

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Download http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0004040
Repository arXiv (United States)
Keywords High Energy Physics - Theory
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