A Glueball- $q\bar{q}$ Filter in Central Hadron Production

dc.creatorClose, Frank
dc.creatorKirk, Andrew
dc.date1997-01-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:33:27Z
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dc.descriptionWe have stumbled upon a remarkable empirical feature of central meson production which separates established $q\bar{q}$ mesons from glueball candidates. This does not appear to have been noted previously and we have no simple explanation for it. We suggest that glueballs and $q\bar{q}$ of the same $J^{PC}$ are distinguishable due to their boson versus fermion internal structure and that this leads to a different topology for central production of glueballs and $q\bar{q}$. Upon application of this test to data from the WA102 experiment we find that the $f_0(1500)$ and the $f_{2}(1900)$ show behaviour consistent with glueballs and opposite to that exhibited by established $q\bar{q}$ states.
dc.descriptionLatex file. 5 figs including 2 from WA102 CERN report "A kinematical selection of glueball candidates in central production"
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9701222
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9701222
dc.identifierPhys.Lett.B397:333-338,1997
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00222-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/179115
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleA Glueball- $q\bar{q}$ Filter in Central Hadron Production
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