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Heavy glueballs: status and large-$N_{c}$ width's estimate

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-08-15 v1

Abstract

Glueballs, an old and firm prediction of various QCD approaches (lattice QCD, bag models, AdS/QCD, effective models, etc.), have not yet been experimentally confirmed. While for glueballs below 2.62.6 GeV some candidates exist, the situation for heavy glueballs (above 2.62.6 GeV) is cloudy. Here, after a brief review of scalar, tensor, and pseudoscalar glueballs, we present predictions for the decays of a putative pseudotensor glueball with a lattice predicted mass of 3.043.04 GeV and a putative vector glueball with a lattice predicted mass of 3.813.81 GeV. Moreover, we discuss in general the width of heavy glueballs by using large-NcN_{c} arguments: we obtain a rough estimate according to which the width of a glueball (such as the vector one) is about 1010 MeV. Such a width would be narrow enough to enable measurement at the future PANDA experiment.

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@article{arxiv.1708.03755,
  title  = {Heavy glueballs: status and large-$N_{c}$ width's estimate},
  author = {Francesco Giacosa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.03755},
  year   = {2017}
}

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6 pages, 1 table. Prepared for the proceedings of Excited QCD 2017, 7-13 May 2017, Sintra, Portugal

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