Abstract
The masses of pure gauge glueballs are calculated with the use of relativistic string Hamiltonian without fitting parameters. The string tension \(\sigma_{f}=0.184\) GeV \({}^{2}\) in fundamental representation is fixed, using the Necco–Sommer lattice data, and to calculate the vector coupling \(\alpha_{V}(r)\) the value of \({\Lambda}_{\overline{MS}}^{0}=238\) MeV ( \(N_{f}=0\) ) is taken. The spin–spin potential, defined via the vacuum correlation function, is shown to produce a screening effect and decrease a hyperfine splittings between tensor and scalar glueballs. The masses of first and second \(0^{++}\) , \(2^{++}\) excitations are predicted. For the ground states the masses \(M(0^{++})=1508\) MeV, \(M(2^{++})=2292\) MeV (case A), in agreement with those of \(f_{0}\) (1500), \(f_{2}\) (2300) are obtained, and the first excitation mass \(M(0^{++})=2613\) MeV is predicted. In case B \(M(0^{++})=1.669\) MeV, \(M(2^{++})=2212\) MeV are obtained.