$2^{++}$ Di-gluonium from LSR at higher order

Abstract

We improve the determination of the mass and coupling of the $2^{++}$ tensor di-gluonium by using relativistic QCD Laplace sum rules (LSR). In so doing, we evaluate the next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections to the perturbative (PT) and $\langle \alpha_s G^2 \rangle$ condensate and the lowest order (LO) $\langle G^3 \rangle$ contributions to the $2^{++}$ di-gluonium two-point correlator. Within a vacuum saturation estimate ($k_G=1$) of the dimension-eight gluon condensates, we obtain: $M_{T}=3028(287)\mbox{MeV}$ and the renormalization group invariant (RGI) coupling $\hat{f}_T=224(33)\mbox{MeV}$. Assuming that the factorization hypothesis can be violated, we study the effect of the violation factor $k_G$ on the results and obtain: $M_T=3188(337)\mbox{MeV}$ and $\hat{f}_T=245(32)\mbox{MeV}$ for $k_G=(3\pm 2)$. Our estimation does not favour the interpretation of the observed $f_2(2010)$, $f_2(2300)$ and $f_2(2340)$ as pure glueball state.