Effective potential between two gluons from the scalar glueball

Starting from the 0⁺⁺ glueball mass and wave function computed from lattice QCD, we compute the local potential between two constituent gluons. Since the properties of constituent gluons are still a matter of research, we allow for them to be either massless, or massive with a mass around 0.7GeV. Both pictures are actually used in the literature. When the gluons are massless, the corresponding local potential is shown to be compatible with a Cornell form, that is a linear confinement plus a short-range Coulomb part, with standard values for the flux tube energy density and for the strong coupling constant. When the gluons are massive, the confining potential is a saturating one, commonly used to simulate string-breaking effects. These results fill a gap between lattice QCD and phenomenological models: The picture of the scalar glueball as a bound state of two constituent gluons interacting via a phenomenological potential is shown to emerge from pure gauge lattice QCD computations. Moreover, we show that the allowed potential shape is constrained by the mass of the constituent gluons.     

On two-body decays of a scalar glueball

We study two-body decays of a scalar glueball. We show that in QCD a spin-0 pure glueball (a state with only gluons) cannot decay into a pair of light quarks if chiral symmetry holds exactly, i.e., the decay amplitude is chirally suppressed. However, this chiral suppression does not materialize itself at the hadron level such as in decays into π⁺π^- and K⁺K^-. We show this explicitly in the two cases with the glueball much lighter and much heavier than the QCD scale using low-energy theorems and perturbative QCD. For a heavy glueball, using QCD factorization based on an effective Lagrangian, we find that the hadronization into ππ and KK leads to a large difference between Br(π⁺π^-) and Br(K⁺K^-); even the decay amplitude is not chirally suppressed. Our results can provide some understanding of the partonic contents if Br(ππ) or Br(KK̄) is measured reliably.     

Vector meson J/ψ,φ electro-production in QCD

We study the vector meson electro-production off the proton in a QCD inspired model.A calculation of the differential cross section is performed for the J/ψ,φ meson off the proton.The theoretical results are consistent with the experimental data,and remind us to consider the contribution from the tensor glueball and Odderon to the differential cross section.Since gluons interact among themselves via self-interaction,the gluons can form a glueball with quantum numbers IG,JPC =0+,2++,with a decay width Γt =100 MeV and mass of mG = 2.23 GeV.The three gluons can form a three gluon color bound state with charge conjugation quantum number C =-1.This study is quite important to verify the validity of QCD and to search for new particles(tensor glueball and Odderon) as well as quest for new physics.     

Lattice QCD: Waiting for the asymptotic scaling

It is argued that there is no contradiction between some recent Monte-Carlo renormalization group evaluations of the lattice β-function and the rather well established asymptotic scaling behavior of the mass of the 0⁺⁺ glueball state. The different behavior of the β-function in these cases may be a manifestation of the simple fact well-known from perturbation theory: there is no unique β-function in QCD.     

瞬子效应在0++胶球的QCD求和规则中的作用

利用包含瞬子效应的QCD求和规则计算了0⁺⁺胶球的质量上限,结果为1.3GeV.还探讨了变动瞬子参量时对QCD求和规则的影响,发现包含瞬子修正的QCD求和规则在瞬子大小为1/3fm时变得很稳定     

The experimental status of glueballs

Glueballs and other resonances with large gluonic components are predicted as bound states by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The lightest (scalar) glueball is estimated to have a mass in the range from 1 to 2 GeV/c²; pseudoscalar and tensor glueballs are expected at higher masses. Many different experiments exploiting a large variety of production mechanisms have presented results in recent years on light mesons with J^PC=0⁺⁺, 0⁻⁺, and 2⁺⁺ quantum numbers. This review looks at the experimental status of glueballs. Good evidence exists for a scalar glueball which is mixed with nearby mesons, but a full understanding is still missing. Evidence for tensor and pseudoscalar glueballs are weak at best. Theoretical expectations of phenomenological models and QCD on the lattice are briefly discussed.     

J-- glueballs and a low odderon intercept

We report an odderon Regge trajectory emerging from a field theoretical Coulomb gauge QCD model for the odd signature J(PC) (P = C = -1) glueball states. The trajectory intercept is clearly smaller than the Pomeron and even the omega trajectory's intercept which provides an explanation for the nonobservation of the odderon in high energy scattering data. To further support this result we compare to glueball lattice data and also perform calculations with an alternative model based upon an exact Hamiltonian diagonalization for three constituent gluons.     

Glueballs and the superfluid phase of Two-Color QCD

We present the first results on scalar glueballs in cold, dense matter using lattice simulations of two-color QCD. The simulations are carried out on a 6³×12 lattice and use a standard hybrid molecular dynamics algorithm for staggered fermions for two values of quark mass. The glueball correlators are evaluated via a multi-step smearing procedure. The amplitude of the glueball correlator peaks in correspondence with the zero temperature chiral transition, μ _c=m _π /2, and the propagators change in a significant way in the superfluid phase, while the Polyakov loop is nearly insensitive to the transition. Standard analysis suggest that lowest mass in the 0⁺⁺ gluonic channel decreases in the superfluid phase, but these observations need to be confirmed on larger and more elongated lattices. These results indicate that a non-zero density induces non-trivial modifications of the gluonic medium.     

Casimir scaling, glueballs, and hybrid gluelumps

Assuming that the Casimir scaling hypothesis is well verified in QCD, masses of glueballs and hybrid gluelumps (gluon attached to a point-like cˉ pair) are computed within the framework of 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 cˉ 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.     

Low mass glueballs in the meson spectrum

The spectrum of bound states of gluons is discussed within the MIT bag model. We argue that (1) contrary to previous analysis there is no light exotic 1^?+ state in the two gluon sector, (2) experiments on the three gluon sector can clearly differentiate the bag model from other models, (3) the state seen in J/ψ radiative decays at 1.4 GeV is most likely a pseudoscalar glueball, and (4) there should be a second 2⁺⁺ state underneath the f(1270) resonance.     

A remark on the large difference between the glueball mass and T<Subscript>c</Subscript> in quenched QCD

The lattice QCD studies indicate that the critical temperature T _c ≃ 260-280 MeV of the deconfinement phase transition in quenched QCD is considerably smaller than the lowest-lying glueball mass m _G ≃ 1500-1700 MeV, i.e., T _c ≪ m _G. As a consequence of this large difference, the thermal excitation of the glueball in the confinement phase is strongly suppressed by the statistical factor e ^-mG/Tc ≃ 0.00207 even near T ≃ T _c. We consider its physical implication, and argue the abnormal feature of the deconfinement phase transition in quenched QCD from the statistical viewpoint. To appreciate this, we demonstrate a statistical argument of the QCD phase transition using the recent lattice QCD data. From the phenomenological relation between T _c and the glueball mass, the deconfinement transition is found to take place in quenched QCD before a reasonable amount of glueballs is thermally excited. In this way, quenched QCD reveals a question “what is the trigger of the deconfinement phase transition ?” Received: 18 November 2002 / Accepted: 4 February 2003 / Published online: 29 April 2003     

Gluelump model with transverse constituent gluons

We show that C -odd gluelumps can be successfully described as bound states of a single transverse constituent gluon evolving in the flux-tube-like potential generated by a static color-octet source. The use of a helicity degree of freedom rather than a spin one for the constituent gluon forbids the states that are not observed in lattice QCD. Our model leads to a gluelump mass spectrum in remarkable agreement with the available lattice data provided that an additional parity splitting mass term is introduced. We argue that such a term is due to instanton-induced interactions in gluelumps.     

Local duality constraints on scalar gluonium

We study O⁺⁺ (gg) channel in the framework of the Gauss-Weierstrass QCD sum rules. The results of this analysis definitely support the existence of a scalar gluonium bound state. Concerning the parameters of such a state, the case of a light and very narrow glueball turns out to be strongly favoured over that of a heavy and broad resonance.     

Anomalous mass dependence of glueball exclusive decay rates

Exclusive decays such as G → ππ are studied in the framework ofperturbative QCD. We discuss the possibility of the constituent gluons' virtualness scaling as the glueball mass M_G, which is a picture equivalent to a glueball containing a few slow-moving, heavy gluons. In this case, the decay rate exhibits a pinch singularity which enhances it by a factor of order (M_G²/m_q²)² over the dimensional scaling expectation. This singularity is partially suppressed by Sudakov effects which reduce the enhancement factor to $\text{(M}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>G</mtext>}}{}^2\text{/m}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>q</mtext>}}{}^2\text{)}{}^{\mathrm{2n}}\text{,}\text{where}\text{n ? 0.4}$.     

Gluelump spectrum in the QCD string model

The spectrum of gluons in the adjoint source field is computed analytically using the QCD string Hamiltonian, containing only one parameter — string tension, fixed by meson and glueball spectrum. Spin splitting is shown to be small. A good agreement is observed with specially generated gluelump states measured on the lattice. The important role of gluelumps defining the behaviour of field-strength correlators is stressed and correspondence with earlier computations of the latter is established.     

Glueball spectroscopy in 4d SU(3) lattice gauge theory (II)

We report on a Monte Carlo variational calculation of the SU(3) glueball mass spectrum on a 5³ · 8 lattice. This investigation relies on Wilson loops up to length 8. Within finite-size effects and statistical fluctuations our previous results from a 4³ · 8 lattice are confirmed: we find a scaling window for the 0⁺⁺ state, but no scaling for 15 other states considered.     

Lowest-lying tetra-quark hadrons in anisotropic lattice QCD

We present a detailed study of the lowest-lying hadrons in quenched improved anisotropic lattice QCD. Using the π π and diquark–antidiquark local and smeared operators, we attempt to isolate the signal for I(J ^P )=0(0⁺),2(0⁺) and 1(1⁺) states in two flavour QCD. In the chiral limit of the light-quark mass region, the lowest scalar 4q state is found to have a mass, m _4q ^I=0=927(12) MeV, which is slightly lower than the experimentally observed f ₀(980). The results from our variational analysis do not indicate a signature of a tetraquark resonance in I=1 and I=2 channels. After the chiral extrapolation the lowest 1(1⁺) state is found to have a mass m _4q ^I=1=1358(28) MeV. We analysed the static 4q potential extracted from a tetraquark Wilson loop and illustrated the behaviour of the 4q state as a bound state, unbinding at some critical diquark separation. From our analysis we conclude that the scalar 4q system appears as a two-pion scattering state and that there is no spatially-localised 4q state in the light-quark mass region.     

Quasi-confinement in theSU(3)-gluon plasma

We investigate a phenomenological equation of state for the gluon plasma, which differs from the ideal gluon gas equation of state in three aspects: (a) it is assumed that gluons withlow momentum are subject to confining interactions anddo not contribute to the energy spectrum of free gluons; (b)only gluons withhigh momentum are considered as an ideal gas with perturbative corrections of orderO(α_s); (c) a non-perturbative vacuum pressure is included. We show that feature (a) allows for a reasonable perturbative treatment of the interaction between gluons with high momentum. The equation of state reproduces lattice data for the thermodynamical functions of theSU(3) pure gauge theory above the deconfinement transition temperatureT _c. This result suggests that a possible way to describe the gluon plasma is in terms of perturbatively interacting gluons and non-perturbative “glueball” states.     

用改进的格点哈密顿量计算2+1维QCD 0++胶球质量

用改进的格点哈密顿量和截断本征方程法计算2＋1维QCD 0^ 胶球质量,结果显示较好的标度行为。