We model the observed J++ mesonic mass spectrum in terms of energies for tightly knotted and linked chromoelectric QCD flux tubes. The data is fit with one and two parameter models. We predict a possible new state at approximately 1190 MeV and a plethora of new states above 1690 MeV.
@article{arxiv.1212.1500,
title = {The tight knot spectrum in QCD},
author = {Roman V. Buniy and Jason Cantarella and Thomas W. Kephart and Eric Rawdon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.1500},
year = {2014}
}