Casimir scaling and Yang-Mills glueballs

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2017.10.050zbMATH Open1380.81214arXiv1705.00286OpenAlexW2610275558MaRDI QIDQ1699237FDOQ1699237

Authors: Deog Ki Hong, Jong-Wan Lee, B. Lucini, Maurizio Piai, Davide Vadacchino 

Publication date: 19 February 2018

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We conjecture that in Yang-Mills theories the ratio between the ground-state glueball mass squared and the string tension is proportional to the ratio of the eigenvalues of quadratic Casimir operators in the adjoint and the fundamental representations. The proportionality constant depends on the dimension of the space-time only, and is henceforth universal. We argue that this universality, which is supported by available lattice results, is a direct consequence of area-law confinement. In order to explain this universal behaviour, we provide three analytical arguments, based respectively on a Bethe-Salpeter analysis, on the saturation of the scale anomaly by the lightest scalar glueball and on QCD sum rules, commenting on the underlying assumptions that they entail and on their physical implications.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.00286

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zbMATH Keywords

confinementYang-Mills theoriesglueballsCasimir scaling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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