Holographic QCD

A simple holographic model, derived from the AdS/CFT Correspondence, is described that displays many features of QCD's dynamics. The geometry has a non-trivial dilaton flow that breaks supersymmetry but preserves the SO(6) R-symmetry of Yang Mills. We speculate that this flow describes the super-Yang Mills theory with a scalar mass term (which is highly irrelevant and would enter as a sharp UV cut off). The geometry describes confinement and chiral symmetry breaking at low temperatures and a first order phase transition to a deconfined plasma with melted mesons at a finite critical temperature.