Scalar glueball q anti-q mixing above 1-GeV and implications for lattice QCD

Mar, 2001
33 pages
Published in:
  • Eur.Phys.J.C 21 (2001) 531-543
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Report number:
  • OUTP-01-14P

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Abstract:
Lattice QCD predictions have motivated several recent studies of the mixing between the predicted JPC = 0++ glueball and a qqbar nonet in the 1.3 to 1.7 GeV region. We show that results from apparently different approaches have some common features, explain why this is so and abstract general conclusions. We place particular emphasis on the flavour dependent constraints imposed by decays of the f0(1370), f0(1500) and f0(1700) to all pairs of pseudoscalar mesons. From these results we identify a systematic correlation between glueball mass, mixing, and flavour symmetry breaking and conclude that the glueball may be rather lighter than some quenched lattice QCD computations have suggested. We identify experimental tests that can determine the dynamics of a glueball in this mass region and discuss quantitatively the feasibility of decoding glueball-qqbar mixing.
Note:
  • 33 pages, Latex, 4 Figures
  • glueball: scalar
  • scalar meson: mixing angle
  • meson: multiplet
  • scalar meson: hadronic decay
  • pseudoscalar meson: pair production
  • scalar meson: width
  • scalar meson: branching ratio
  • glueball: hadronic decay
  • glueball: mass
  • meson: radiative decay
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