  The Anti-de Sitter Space/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence may
offer new and useful insights into the non-perturbative regime of strongly
coupled gauge theories such as Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). We present an
AdS/CFT-inspired model that describes the spectra of light mesons. The
conformal symmetry is broken by a background dilaton field, and chiral symmetry
breaking and linear confinement are described by a chiral condensate field.
These background fields, along with a background glueball condensate field, are
derived from a potential. We describe the construction of the potential, and
the calculation of the meson spectra, which match experimental data well. We
argue that the presence of the third background field is necessary to properly
describe the meson spectra.
