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Identifying Glueball at 3.02 GeV in Baryonic $B$ Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-11-15 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We examine the nature of the unknown enhancement around 3 GeV observed by the BABAR collaboration in the mppˉm_{p\bar p} spectrum of the Bˉ0ppˉD0\bar B^0\to p\bar p D^0 decay. Suspecting that the peak is a resonance, which can be neither identified as a charmonium state, such as ηc\eta_c or J/ψJ/\psi, nor classified as one of the light-flavor mesons, we conclude that it corresponds to a glueball fitted as X(3020) with (mX,  ΓX)=(3020±8,  107±30)  MeV(m_X,\;\Gamma_X)=(3020\pm 8,\; 107\pm 30)\;\text{MeV}, which could be the first glueball state above 3 GeV. This state also appears in the mppˉm_{p\bar p} spectrum of the Bˉ0ppˉD0\bar B^0\to p\bar p D^{*0} decay.

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@article{arxiv.1302.3331,
  title  = {Identifying Glueball at 3.02 GeV in Baryonic $B$ Decays},
  author = {Y. K. Hsiao and C. Q. Geng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.3331},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

11 pages, 2 figure, title changed, revised version accepted by PLB