  We consider the defect theory obtained by intersecting D3- and D5-branes
along two common spatial directions. We work in the approximation in which the
D5-brane is a probe in the AdS_5xS^5 background. By adding worldvolume flux to
the D5-brane and choosing an appropriate embedding of the probe in AdS_5xS^5,
one gets a supersymmetric configuration in which some of the D3-branes
recombine with the D5-brane. We check this fact by showing that the D5-brane
can be regarded as a system of polarized D3-branes. On the field theory side
this corresponds to the Higgs branch of the defect theory, where some of the
fundamental hypermultiplet fields living on the intersection acquire a vacuum
expectation value. We study the spectrum of mesonic bound states of the defect
theory in this Higgs branch and show that it is continuous and gapless.
