On the spectrum of pure Yang-Mills theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-01-09 v1
Abstract
In this note we discuss the wave functional approach to the spectrum of pure Yang-Mills theory in 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions by highlighting the issues of dynamical mass generation and the role played by the kinetic term. We extrapolate our recent analysis of 2+1 Yang-Mills theory to 3+1 dimensions, and under certain heuristic assumptions use a simple quasi-Gaussian vacuum wavefunctional for 3+1 Yang-Mills theory for a preliminary study of the spectrum of glueballs which nicely fits the available lattice simulations.
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@article{arxiv.0801.1113,
title = {On the spectrum of pure Yang-Mills theory},
author = {Laurent Freidel and Robert G. Leigh and Djordje Minic and Alexandr Yelnikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.1113},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
19 pages, To appear in the proceedings of the first Sowers Theoretical Physics workshop, Virginia Tech, May 2007