Anyonic glueballs from an effective-string model

Abstract

Relying on an effective-string approach in which glueballs --- bound states of pure Yang-Mills theory --- are modelled by closed strings, we give arguments suggesting that anyonic glueballs, \textit{i.e.} glueballs with arbitrary spin, may exist in $(2+1)$-dimensional Yang-Mills theory. We then focus on the large-$N_c$ limit of $SU$($N_c$) Yang-Mills theory and show that our model leads to a mass spectrum in good agreement with lattice data in the scalar sector, while it predicts the masses and spins of anyonic glueball states.

13 pages

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• Effective String Theory Revisited
• Anyons from Strings
• The Spin-Statistics Theorem for Anyons and Plektons in d=2+1
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