Properties of Baryons from D-branes and Instantons
Talk given at Continuous Advances in QCD 2008, William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, Minnesota, May 15-18, 2006.
We give a brief summary of our recent works1,2 on the baryons in holographic QCD.3 In the holographic description, meson effective action is given by the five dimensional Yang-Mills - Chern-Simons theory in a certain curved background. The baryon is described as a soliton carrying an instanton number on the four dimensional space. By quantizing the soliton, we obtain various baryon states and calculate static quantities such as charge radii, magnetic moments, axial coupling, etc.