Glueballonia as Hopfions

We work out the Hopfion description of glueballs by inclusively comparing the energy spectra obtained by quantizing Hopfions with experimental data and lattice QCD. Identifying a Hopfion carrying a unit topological charge as f0(1500), the Hopfions with the topological charge two are classified as gl...

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Main Authors: Yuki Amari, Muneto Nitta, Chihiro Sasaki, Kenta Shigaki, Satoshi Yano, Shigehiro Yasui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-10-01
Series:Physics Letters B
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269325005660
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Summary:We work out the Hopfion description of glueballs by inclusively comparing the energy spectra obtained by quantizing Hopfions with experimental data and lattice QCD. Identifying a Hopfion carrying a unit topological charge as f0(1500), the Hopfions with the topological charge two are classified as glueballonia, i.e., two glueballs are bound together. We find a tightly and a loosely bound glueballonia complying with f0(2470) and a novel scalar particle carrying the mass around 2814 MeV, respectively, and calculate their binding energies. By the rigid body quantization of Hopfions, we predict a characteristic multiplet structure of tensor glueball states. Some of them are missing in the current experimental data and can be verified in future measurements.
ISSN:0370-2693