The QCD mass gap and quark deconfinement scales as mass bounds in strong gravity Piyabut Burikham, Tiberiu Harko and Matthew J. Lake Eur. Phys. J. C, 77 11 (2017) 803 Published online: 24 November 2017 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5381-9