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The Experimental Status of Glueballs

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Glueballs and other resonances with large gluonic components are predicted as bound states by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The lightest (scalar) glueball is estimated to have a mass in the range from 1 to 2 GeV/c**2; a pseudoscalar and tensor glueball are expected at higher masses. Many different experiments exploiting a large variety of production mechanisms have presented results in recent years on light mesons with J(PC) = 0(++), 0(-+), and 2(++) quantum numbers. This review looks at the experimental status of glueballs. Good evidence exists for a scalar glueball which is mixed with nearby mesons, but a full understanding is still missing. Evidence for tensor and pseudoscalar glueballs are weak at best. Theoretical expectations of phenomenological models and QCD on the lattice are briefly discussed.

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The atomic nucleus as a bound system of $3A$ quarks

nucl-th · 2026-05-02 · unverdicted · novelty 4.0

Nuclei are 3A-quark systems where Fermi gas explains equal u/d quarks in light nuclei, a modified bag model fits heavier ones, and AdS5 duality predicts the lightest glueball's decay and sets the maximum stable nuclear charge at Z=82 for lead.

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