nLab color branes and flavor branes

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Phenomenology

Fields and quanta

field (physics)

standard model of particle physics

force field gauge bosons

scalar bosons

flavors of fundamental fermions in the
standard model of particle physics:
generation of fermions1st generation2nd generation3d generation
quarks ($q$)
up-typeup quark ($u$)charm quark ($c$)top quark ($t$)
down-typedown quark ($d$)strange quark ($s$)bottom quark ($b$)
leptons
chargedelectronmuontauon
neutralelectron neutrinomuon neutrinotau neutrino
bound states:
mesonspion ($u d$)
rho-meson ($u d$)
omega-meson ($u d$)
kaon ($q_{u/d} s$)
eta-meson (u u + d d + s s)
B-meson ($q b$)
baryonsproton $(u u d)$
neutron $(u d d)$

(also: antiparticles)

effective particles

hadron (bound states of the above quarks)

solitons

minimally extended supersymmetric standard model

superpartners

bosinos:

dark matter candidates

Exotica

auxiliary fields

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Idea

In geometric engineering of quantum field theory in intersecting D-brane models the gauge theory which is thought to appear on coincident D-branes (see at gauge enhancement) may play two different roles:

1. color – it may be a Yang-Mills theory of an “actual” gauge field (carried by gluons) coupled to color charges (carried by quarks) – like quantum chromodynamics;

2. flavor – it may be the (“chiral”) gauge theory of a hidden local gauge field (carried by mesons) coupled to flavor charges (carried by baryons) – like quantum hadrodynamics.

In the first case one speaks of color branes, in the second of flavor branes. Typically one indicates the number of coincident such branes with

1. $N_c \in \mathbb{N}$ for the number of color branes, leading (in the absence of orientifolds) to gauge group SU$(N_c)$;

2. $N_f \in \mathbb{N}$ for the number of flavor branes, leading to flavor-symmetry group (“chiral symmetry”) SU$(N_f)$ (e.g. isospin for $N_f = 2$).

Examples

Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model for quantum chromodynamics

For example, in the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model for holographic QCD realized on D4-D8 brane intersections, the D4-branes play the role of color branes while the D8-branes play the role of flavor branes.

graphics from Sati-Schreiber 19c

Here we are showing

1. the color D4-branes;

2. the flavor D8-branes;

with

1. the 5d Chern-Simons theory on their worldvolume

2. the corresponding 4d WZW model on the boundary

exhibiting the vector meson fields in the Skyrmion model;

3. (see below at Baryons);

4. (see at D6-D8-brane bound state);

5. the NS5-branes (often not considered here).

graphics from Sati-Schreiber 19c

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