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Tight Knot Spectrum In Qcd, Roman V. Buniy, Jason Cantarella, Thomas W. Kephart, Eric Rawdon
Tight Knot Spectrum In Qcd, Roman V. Buniy, Jason Cantarella, Thomas W. Kephart, Eric Rawdon
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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.