Holographic Model for Mesons at Finite Temperature

Abstract

A holographic model of QCD at finite temperature is proposed and thermal properties for light mesons are examined in terms of this model. We find interesting temperature dependences of masses and decay constants for several mesons, and Nambu-Goldstone theorem for the chiral symmetry breaking and generalized Gell-Mann-Oakes-Renner relation are assured at finite temperature. Furthermore, we can see in the chiral limit that the speed of the pion in the thermal medium decreases to zero when the temperature approaches to the critical point of quark confinement and deconfinement transition, where the chiral symmetry is restored.