Hybrid adiabatic potentials in the QCD string model.pdf

a r X i v : h e p - p h / 0 2 0 3 1 2 8 v 1 1 4 M a r 2 0 0 2 Hybrid adiabatic potentials in the QCD string model Yu.S.Kalashnikova ?, D.S.Kuzmenko?? Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218, B. Cheremushkinskaya 25, Moscow, Russia Abstract The short- and intermediate-distance behaviour of the hybrid adiabatic potentials is calculated in the framework of the QCD string model. The calculations are per- formed with the inclusion of Coulomb force. Spin-dependent force and the so-called string correction term are treated as perturbation at the leading potential-type regime. Reasonably good agreement with lattice measurements takes place for adiabatic curves excited with magnetic components of field strength correlators. 1 Introduction Gluonic degrees of freedom in the nonperturbative region should manifest themselves as QCD bound states containing constituent glue, so one expects that purely gluonic hadrons (glue- balls) should exist as well as hybrids where the glue is excited in the presence of qq? pair. General agreement is that the lightest hybrids occur in the mass range between 1.3 and 1.9 GeV, so the absolute mass scale remains somewhat imprecise in the absence of exact analytic methods of nonperturbative QCD. Existing experimental data seem to point towards gluonic excitations being present, and prima facie candidates are identified [1], but the conclusive evidences have never been presented. There is no hope that in the nearest future data anal- yses could unambigiously pin-point the signatures for gluonic mesons and settle the issue of constituent glue. The state-of-art is that the predictions of different models on hadronic spec- tra and decays are involved in order to distinguish between gluonic mesons and conventional ones. In such situation the lattice gauge calculations remain the only source of knowledge. Lattice calculations are now accurate enough to serve as a guide, so that the results of different QCD-motivated approaches can b