The tight knot spectrum in QCD

Abstract

We model the observed $J^{++}$ mesonic mass spectrum in terms of energies for tightly knotted and linked chromoelectric QCD flux tubes. The data is fit with one and two parameter models. We predict a possible new state at approximately 1190 MeV and a plethora of new states above 1690 MeV.

30 pages, 17 figures, 7 tables

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