4 papers
Confining Strings and the Worldsheet Axion from the Lattice
Andreas Athenodorou, Sergei Dubovsky, Conghuan Luo +1
We present a major update on the spectrum of closed flux tubes in gauge theories. We measure the excitation spectrum of confining strings wound around a spatial dim…
Love numbers of black p-branes: fine tuning, Love symmetries, and their geometrization
Panagiotis Charalambous, Sergei Dubovsky, Mikhail M. Ivanov
We compute scalar static response coefficients (Love numbers) of non-dilatonic black -brane solutions in higher dimensional supergravity. This calculation revels a fine-tuning b…
The EFT of Large Spin Mesons
Gabriel Cuomo, Sergei Dubovsky, Guzmán Hernández-Chifflet +2
We use effective string theory to study mesons with large spin in large QCD as rotating open strings. In the first part of this work, we formulate a consistent effective…
Towards an Effective String Theory for the flux tube
Andreas Athenodorou, Sergei Dubovsky, Conghuan Luo +1
The quest to develop an effective string theory capable of describing the confining flux tube has been a longstanding objective within the theoretical physics community. Recent lat…