title: Hadron masses and screening from anti-de Sitter space Wilson loops.
abstract: We show that in strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills conformal theory the binding energy of a heavy and a light quark is independent of the strength of the coupling constant. As a consequence we are able to show that in the presence of light quarks the analog of the QCD string can snap and color charges are screened. The resulting neutral mesons interact with each other only via pion exchange and we estimate the masses of those states.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA. karch@phys.washington.edu
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karch
authors.forename: Emanuel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Katz
authors.forename: Neal
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Weiner