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The Scalar Glueball in the Instanton Vacuum

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-07-18 v3

Abstract

We study the contribution of instantons to the binding and the mass of the lightest scalar glueball, in gluondynamics. We show that the short-range correlations introduced by such non-perturbative vacuum fluctuations are sufficient to give raise to a scalar glueball bound-state, with mass in good agreement with the results of recent lattice calculations.

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@article{arxiv.0711.3829,
  title  = {The Scalar Glueball in the Instanton Vacuum},
  author = {M. C. Tichy and P. Faccioli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.3829},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Version accepted for publication on EPJ C