Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-05-07
AIPConf.Proc.1030:207-212,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
6 pages, 1 figure, Contribution to the Proceedings of the Workshop on Scalar Mesons and Related Topics Honoring Michael D. Sca
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2973500
Existence of gluonic resonances is among the early expectations of QCD. Today, QCD calculations predict the lightest glueball to be a scalar state with mass within a range of about 900-1700 MeV but there is no consensus about its experimental evidence. In a re-analysis of the phase shifts for pi pi scattering up to 1800 MeV where such states should show up we find the broad resonance f_0(600)/\sigma contributing to the full mass range and the narrow f_0(980) and f_0(1500) but no evidence for f_0(1370). Phenomenological arguments for the broad state to be a glueball are recalled. It is argued that the large radiative width of f_0(600)/\sigma reported recently is not in contradiction to this hypothesis but is mainly due to pi pi rescattering. The small ``direct'' radiative component is consistent with QCD sum rule predictions for the light glueball.
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