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Excited Scalar Mesons and the Search for Glueballs

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-06-20 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We discuss the importance of mixing between glueballs -- bound states of gluons -- and excited qˉq\bar{q}q states for the glueball search. A preliminary study of the excited states in the Extended Linear Sigma Model (eLSM) suggests their masses in the scalar channel to be in the vicinity of the scalar-glueball mass found in Lattice QCD. This could have implications for future glueball searches.

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@article{arxiv.1606.05533,
  title  = {Excited Scalar Mesons and the Search for Glueballs},
  author = {Denis Parganlija and Francesco Giacosa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.05533},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure. Prepared for Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Low Energy Antiproton Physics (LEAP), Kanazawa/Japan, March 6-11, 2016