2000, Volume 3, Number 3, pp.293--298
Various pictures of glueballs in a generic sense, the hadrons
consisting of gluons only, are reviewed and discussed in some detail in
the light of their relevance to hadron-hadron, photon
(gauge-boson)-hadron, and (hadronic) photon (gauge-boson)-photon
(gauge-boson) scattering at high energies. In particular, it is proposed
that the Pomeron is a "color-ball", the color-singlet complex
object consisting of an arbi-trary number of gluons, which can be
approximately described in QCD either by the extended Nambu-Goto action or
by the extended Polyakov action for the hadronic membrane or for the
hadronic bundle.
Key words: QCD, glueballs, hadronic membrane, hadronic bundle,
Polyakov action, Nambu-Goto action.
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