A model of glueballs

Abstract

We model the observed glueball mass spectrum in terms of energies for tightly knotted and linked QCD flux tubes. The data is fit well with one parameter. We predict additional glueball masses.

11 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; minor changes, comments added, typos corrected

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