Heavy glueballs: status and large-$N_{c}$ width's estimate
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 GeV some candidates exist, the situation for heavy glueballs (above 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 GeV and a putative vector glueball with a lattice predicted mass of GeV. Moreover, we discuss in general the width of heavy glueballs by using large- arguments: we obtain a rough estimate according to which the width of a glueball (such as the vector one) is about 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