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Gaussian Sum-Rules, Scalar Gluonium, and Instantons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Gaussian sum-rules relate a QCD prediction to a two-parameter Gaussian-weighted integral of a hadronic spectral function, providing a clear conceptual connection to quark-hadron duality. In contrast to Laplace sum-rules, the Gaussian sum-rules exhibit enhanced sensitivity to excited states of the hadronic spectral function. The formulation of Gaussian sum-rules and associated analysis techniques for extracting hadronic properties from the sum-rules are reviewed and applied to scalar gluonium. With the inclusion of instanton effects, the Gaussian sum-rule analysis results in a consistent scenario where the gluonic resonance strength is spread over a broad energy range below 1.6 GeV, and indicates the presence of gluonium content in more than one hadronic state.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0210013,
  title  = {Gaussian Sum-Rules, Scalar Gluonium, and Instantons},
  author = {T. G. Steele and D. Harnett and G. Orlandini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0210013},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

19 pages, 5 eps figures embedded in manuscript. Write-up of presentation given at SUNY IT Conference on Theoretical High-Energy Physics, 2002

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