Achiral boundaries and the twisted Yangian of the D5-brane

We consider integrable field theories with achiral boundary conditions and uncover the underlying achiral twisted Yangian algebra. This construction arises from old work on the bosonic principal chiral model on a half-line, but finds a modern realization as the hidden symmetry in the planar limit of the scattering of worldsheet excitations of the AdS/CFT light-cone superstring off a D5-brane.
Comment: 21 pages, 6 figures; v2: typos corrected, refs added; v3: minor corrections made, published version