Glueballs and the mass gap
Glueball existence is a direct consequence of the mass gap: without a gap there would be massless gluonic excitations, but confinement ensures every excitation above vacuum carries positive mass; the lightest glueball at ~1.5 GeV satisfies m_gb ~ 2pi/sigma_tau^(1/2), though exper
What this page is
This is a public Results-lane surface for a noteworthy Physics Registry item. It is generated from the Corpus Registry triage catalogue and keeps the generic Result catalogue unchanged.
Registry evidence
- Registry item: IV.R129
- Type: remark
- Scope: tau-effective
- Lean status: formalized
- Book / part / chapter: Book IV · Part 6 · Chapter 48
Result summary
Glueball existence is a direct consequence of the mass gap: without a gap there would be massless gluonic excitations, but confinement ensures every excitation above vacuum carries positive mass; the lightest glueball at ~1.5 GeV satisfies m_gb ~ 2pi/sigma_tau^(1/2), though experimental identification is complicated by mixing with nearby scalar mesons.
Related Results surfaces
- Glueballs: Mass Gap = Minimum Glueball Mass
- Glueballs: Mass Gap = Minimum Glueball Mass
- QCD Confinement
- color-confinement
- Color confinement
- glueballs
- Glueballs
Reading role
Use as Registry evidence for an existing Results surface.
Claim boundary
This page reports a Registry-backed internal result surface. It is not an external validation claim, a scientific consensus claim, or independent acceptance.
Curation rationale
- physics-facing terms: glueball, mass, vacuum
- candidate is better handled as evidence for an inferred existing public surface
Review notes
- No additional review notes recorded.