Virginia TechLeigh, R. G.Minic, DjordjeYelnikov, A.2013-12-102013-12-102006-06-09Leigh, RG ; Minic, D ; Yelnikov, A, Jun 9, 2006. “Solving pure Yang-Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions,” PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 96(22): 222001. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.2220010031-9007http://hdl.handle.net/10919/24500We analytically compute the spectrum of the spin zero glueballs in the planar limit of pure Yang-Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions. The new ingredient is provided by our computation of a new nontrivial form of the ground state wave functional. The mass spectrum of the theory is determined by the zeroes of Bessel functions, and the agreement with large N lattice data is excellent.en-USIn Copyrightabelian gauge-theoriesglueball mass-spectrumstring theory2-dimensional qcdlimitgapPhysicsArticle - Refereedhttp://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.222001https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.222001