Glueball Mass Predictions of the Valence Approximation to Lattice QCD

1993/08/11 by H. Chen, Chen, H., J. Sexton +6
Physics and Astronomy · #Glueball #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Lattice (music) #Lattice QCD #Lattice field theory #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Quenched approximation #Theoretical and Computational Physics #Valence (chemistry) #hep-lat #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/9308010

published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · uufiles encoded copy of 19 pages of Latex plus 10 postscript figues

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Abstract

We evaluate the infinite volume, continuum limit of glueball masses in the valence (quenched) approximation to lattice QCD. For the lightest states with J^PC of 0⁺⁺ and 2⁺⁺, we obtain m₀ = 1340 ± 160 MeV and m₂ = 1900 ± 320 MeV.

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