Update on Glueballs
Abstract
The recent BESIII announcement of a pseudoscalar glueball candidate makes an update on glueballs from lattice QCD timely. A brief review of how glueballs are studied in lattice QCD is given, and the reasons that glueballs are difficult to study both in lattice QCD with dynamical quarks and in experiments are outlined. Recent glueball studies in lattice QCD are then presented, and an exploratory investigation of the scalar glueball using glueball, meson, and meson-meson operators is summarized, suggesting that no scalar state below 2 GeV or so can be considered to be predominantly a glueball state.
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@article{arxiv.2502.02547,
title = {Update on Glueballs},
author = {Colin Morningstar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.02547},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
12 pages, 10 Figures; plenary talk presented at the 41st International Symposium on Lattice Field theory (LATTICE2024), July 28th - August 3rd, 2024, Liverpool, UK