Nuclear binding energy in holographic QCD

Abstract

Saturation of the nuclear binding energy is one of the most important properties of atomic nuclei. We derive the saturation in holographic QCD, by building a shell-model-like mean-field nuclear potential from the nuclear density profile obtained in a holographic multi-baryon effective theory. The numerically estimated binding energy is close to the experimental value.

Comments: 7 pages, 1 fugure; v2: a footnote added; v3: published version