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Casimir scaling, glueballs and hybrid gluelumps

Vincent Mathieu, Claude Semay, Fabian Brau

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0511210

Abstract

Assuming that the Casimir scaling hypothesis is well verified in QCD, masses of glueballs and hybrid gluelumps (gluon with a point-like c c pair) are computed within the rotating string formalism. In our model, two gluons are attached by an adjoint string in a glueball while the gluon and the colour octet c c pair are attached by two fundamental strings in a hybrid gluelump. Masses for such exotic hadrons are computed with very few free parameters. These predictions can serve as a guide for experimental searches. In particular, the ground state glueballs lie on a Regge trajectory and the lightest 2++ state has a mass compatible with some experimental candidates.

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