The physics of glueballs

By V. Mathieu, N. Kochelev, V. Vento. 2008

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Glueballs are particles whose valence degrees of freedom are gluons and therefore in their description the gauge field plays a dominant role. We review recent results in the physics of glueballs with the aim set on phenomenology and discuss the possibility of finding them in conventional hadronic experiments and in the Quark Gluon Plasma. In order to describe their properties we resort to a variety of theoretical treatments which include, lattice QCD, constituent models, AdS/QCD methods, and QCD sum rules. The review is supposed to be an informed guide to the literature. Therefore, we do not discuss in detail technical developments but refer the reader to the appropriate references.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• Light Hadron Masses from Lattice QCD (2012, background): “For recent reviews on this topic see e.g. (Klempt and Zaitsev, 2007; Mathieu et al., 2009; McNeile, 2009; Teper, 1998).”
• The experimental status of glueballs (2008, background): “There is also a very recent review by Mathieu and colleagues [7] on the theoretical situation of glueballs.”
• Towards the glueball spectrum from unquenched lattice QCD (2012, background): “There are a number of reviews on the theory of glueballs [41, 42], lattice QCD calculations of glueballs [43], and experimental searches [44] for glueball degrees of freedom.”
• The Status of Glueballs (2013, background): “There are recent reviews which include complementary material on various phenomenological and experimental issues [5] and on other theoretical [6] as well as experimental results [7].”