Glueball mass from RGZ-inspired infrared gluodynamics: a Euclidean Bethe-Salpeter approach

TL;DR

This paper develops a Euclidean Bethe-Salpeter approach using RGZ-inspired gluon propagators to calculate the scalar glueball mass in pure Yang-Mills theory, finding results consistent with lattice and correlator analyses.

Contribution

It introduces a novel bound-state calculation of the scalar glueball mass using RGZ-inspired propagators and a minimal ladder truncation, providing a cross-check with existing methods.

Findings

Glueball mass estimated around 1.9 GeV

Results align with lattice and correlator analyses

Method offers a new bound-state perspective on infrared gluodynamics

Abstract

We formulate and solve a Euclidean Bethe-Salpeter equation for the lightest scalar glueball (0++) in pure Yang-Mills theory, using the refined Gribov-Zwanziger gluon tree-level propagator as an infrared-complete input. In a minimal ladder truncation with an effective constant kernel strength g_C^2 and the dominant s-wave component, we extract scalar glueball masses in the range 1.7-2.3 GeV for representative values of g_C^2, with a preferred value around 1.9 GeV near g_C^2 = 0.54. The result is consistent with RGZ correlator-based infrared moment analyses and with lattice expectations, providing a cross-check of RGZ-inspired infrared gluodynamics from a bound-state viewpoint.