Augmenting the Gauge-Gravity Correspondence to include Hadron Polarizabilities

Abstract

ADS/CFT models have achieved considerable success in describing hadronic properties such as masses and Regge trajectories. Even if the minimal vertex that couples photons to structureless spin-zero fields is used, one still ends up with electromagnetic form factors of hadrons that are in fair to good agreement with experiment. However, contradicting both experiment and intuition, this minimal model gives zero for hadronic electric and magnetic polarizabilities. We show here that if effective vertices are used, and axial and vector mesons are allowed to propagate as intermediate states, then the static polarizabilities can in principle be computed from ADS/CFT.