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Several decades ago, claims concerning the existence of
glueballs have been published by QCD supporters (see [1], p. 100).
The Regular Charge-Monopole Theory (RCMT) describes
the strong interactions as interactions between monopoles
that satisfy the RCMT equations of motion. Here, no gluon
exist. A fortiori, a genuine glueball does not exist.
This conclusion is in accordance with experimental results. Thus on
April 14, 2010, Wikipedia says that glueballs "have (as of 2009)
so far not been observed and identified with certainty." Similarly,
the authors of
the review article [2] state that: it is not obvious that we are able to
definitively answer the question of “has a glueball been observed?”.
The following statement describes the glueball activity:
In spite of a consistent failure, experimental search
for glueballs still continues [2].
References:
[1] H. Frauenfelder and E. M. Henley, Subatomic Physics,
(Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1991).
[2] V. Crede and C.A. Meyer, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 63,
74 (2009).
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