Magnetic Catalysis and Holography

dc.rights.license	CC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisor	Gürsoy, Umut
dc.contributor.author	Berg, R. van den
dc.date.accessioned	2016-02-18T18:00:49Z
dc.date.available	2016-02-18T18:00:49Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.identifier.uri	https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/21885
dc.description.abstract	In this thesis we will study the effects of a magnetic field on the quark condensate. To do this we'll look at Quantum Chromo Dynamics, the breaking of chiral symmetry and the formation of the chiral condensate and how the magnetic field affects this. We'll discuss two different models, first the Improved Holographic QCD model with an added flavour sector, and the AdS-soliton model. While we could show a constructive effect of the magnetic field on the quark condensate in the soliton model, this proved to be out of our reach in the IHQCD theory due to the inability to get the proper tachyon divergence.
dc.description.sponsorship	Utrecht University
dc.format.extent	2841754
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en
dc.title	Magnetic Catalysis and Holography
dc.type.content	Master Thesis
dc.rights.accessrights	Open Access
dc.subject.keywords	Magnetic Catalysis, Holography, IHQCD, Improved Holographic QCD, AdS-soliton, quark condensate
dc.subject.courseuu	Theoretical Physics