The glueball spectrum from constituent gluon model

Abstract

We present a model for odd-C (negative charge parity) glueballs with three constituent gluons. The model is an extension of a previous study of two-gluon glueballs. We show that, even if spin-1 gluons seem to reproduce properly the lattice QCD spectrum for C = + states, the extension for C = − cannot match with the lattice results. Resorting to the helicity formalism, we show how transverse gluons fit in better agreement the lattice QCD spectrum. We then conclude that even if gluons gain an effective mass, they remain transverse particles. 8th Conference Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum