The rho-pi puzzle and vector glueball mixing
Abstract
The is identified as the radial excitation of the . Based on perturbative QCD, the branching ratio of the into some final hadron state should be approximately 13% of the branching ratio of the to that same hadron final state. This is called the "13\% rule". However, certain decay channels such as the severely violate this 13% rule. Using the extended Linear Sigma Model, we study the effect a small mixing angle between the and the vector glueball can have on the 13% rule. We show that in a simple model the mixing can already suppress decays sufficiently to match the observation, but to fully describe the data a more sophisticated model is necessary. We also show that matching to data can tell us about the magnitude of glueball decay widths.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2502.21042,
title = {The rho-pi puzzle and vector glueball mixing},
author = {Arthur Vereijken},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.21042},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
6 pages, contribution to the proceedings of FAIR next generation scientists - 8th Edition Workshop (FAIRness2024)