Glueball spectra and Regge trajectories from a modified holographic softwall model

In this work we propose a modified holographic softwall model, analytically solvable, to calculate the masses of lightest scalar glueball and its radial excitations and of higher spin glueball states for both even and odd spins. From these results we obtain their respective Regge trajectories, associated with the pomeron for even spins and with the odderon for odd spins. These results are in agreement with those calculated using other approaches.Comment: V.2: 14 pages. Text improved. New appendix. Results unchanged. To appear in PL

Wilson Loops for a quark anti-quark pair in D3-brane space

We calculate static Wilson loops for a heavy quark anti-quark pair in different positions in the space generated by a large number of coincident D3-branes. Simple results are obtained from limiting cases of the geodesic shape. In particular, quark anti-quark static potentials for flat and AdS spaces are reproduced.Comment: Revised version published in JHE