Published May 19, 1980 | Version v1
Journal article

Relativistic wave equation and mass spectrum of gluonium

Creators

  • 1. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

Description

A relativistic wave equation is derived for gauge-invariant J=0 gluonium amplitudes, and show that its reduced eigenvalue equation is identical with that for a quark-antiquark system in 3P1 states. Analysing relations between potentials in the two respective systems, I obtain an upper limit of 2 GeV to the ground-state mass if I take light quarkonium as a reference system, whereas I estimate the ground state to lie between 2.5 and 3 GeV if I use charmonium potential parameters. The scalar and the pseudoscalar gluonium states are degenerate in the present approach

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Volume
44
Journal Issue
20
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
1319-1322
ISSN
0031-9007