Eur. Phys. J. A (2017) 53: 185
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2017-12378-2

Letter

AdS gravity and the scalar glueball spectrum

Departament de Fisica Teòrica, Universitat de València and Institut de Fisica Corpuscular, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 46100, Burjassot (València), Spain

^* e-mail: vicente.vento@uv.es

Received: 21 June 2017
Accepted: 4 September 2017
Published online: 25 September 2017

Abstract

The scalar glueball spectrum has attracted much attention since the formulation of Quantum Chromodynamics. Different approaches give very different results for the glueball masses. We revisit the problem from the perspective of the AdS/CFT correspondence.