Glueballs and the universal energy spectrum of tight knots and links

Abstract

Systems of tightly knotted, linked, or braided flux tubes will have a universal mass-energy spectrum if the flux is quantized. We focus on a model of glueballs as knotted QCD flux tubes.

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