Buckyballs of QCD: gluon junction networks
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
We propose that femto scale QCD analogs of Fullerene type excitations may exist with ``magic numbers'' 8,24,48, and 120. These ``J-balls'' are the most symmetrical closed networks of gluonic baryon junctions and anti-junctions with zero net baryon number. CP odd J-Moebii and other femto-tubes and tori gluonic structures may also exist. We estimate the relative binding energies and discuss possible experimental signatures of the formation of these new topological gluonic states.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0102282,
title = {Buckyballs of QCD: gluon junction networks},
author = {T. Csorgo and M. Gyulassy and D. Kharzeev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0102282},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, 4 figures (ps,eps), talk given by T. Csorgo at ISMD 2000, Tihany, Hungary (misprints corrected)