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A glueball component in fo(1790)

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D.V. Bugg (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 2 Mar 2006 · 17 references

Pith's verdict: A plausible quantitative case that f0(1790) has a sizeable glueball component, but the omega-phi preference is asserted by analogy, so the 40% estimate is provisional.

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The paper claims

The sharp omega-phi peak in J/psi radiative decays is the f0(1790) resonance carrying about a 40 percent glueball component, not a pure glueball.

The reading

The paper aims to show that the sharp $\omega\phi$ peak seen in $J/\psi \to \gamma(\omega\phi)$ is not a separate state or a pure glueball, but the $f_0(1790)$ resonance locked to the $\omega\phi$ threshold. It argues this quantitatively from branching fractions: the observed total radiative production of $f_0(1790)$ is about $16\times 10^{-4}$, roughly half the pure-glueball sum-rule prediction of $34\times 10^{-4}$. The discrepancy is read as evidence that $f_0(1790)$ carries about a 40 percent glueball component in intensity, with the rest mixed among other scalar mesons. This matters because it turns a threshold anomaly into a quantitative handle on glueball content in radiative $J/\psi$ decays.

What carries the argument

The central machinery is the dispersive threshold-locking mechanism: a sharp threshold produces a step in the imaginary part of the elastic amplitude, which through $m(s)=\frac{1}{\pi}\int \frac{\mathrm{Im}\,M\Gamma(s')}{s'-s}\,ds'$ generates a peak in the real part; that peak pulls the resonance to the threshold and broadens its line shape, as in the $f_0(980)$ example. A second ingredient is the flavour-counting ratio $4/3$ between $\omega\phi$ and $\rho\rho$ expected for a flavour-singlet glueball decay, which the data satisfy.

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Core claim

The central claim is that the $\omega\phi$ threshold peak in $J/\psi \to \gamma(\omega\phi)$, with $J^P = 0^+$, originates from $f_0(1790)$ through a threshold-locking mechanism: the sharp $\omega\phi$ threshold at 1801 MeV generates a dispersive real-part peak that pulls the resonance to the threshold, while the wider $K^*\bar K^*$ threshold does not lock because the $K^*$ width smears the nonlinearity. The paper then compares branching fractions and finds that the total radiative production of $f_0(1790)$, $16.1 \pm 1.6 \times 10^{-4}$, falls short of the pure-glueball prediction of $34^{+8}_{-4}\times 10^{-4}$ by roughly a factor two. The conclusion is that $f_0(1790)$ is not a pure glueball but has a glueball component of about 40 percent in intensity, distributed among $f_0(1370)$, $f_0(1500)$, $f_0(1710)$ and $f_0(1790)$.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that $f_0(1790)$ locks to the sharp $\omega\phi$ threshold at 1801 MeV while the $K^*\bar K^*$ channel is suppressed because the $K^*$ width smears the nonlinearity; no explicit coupled-channel calculation for $f_0(1790)$ is provided, so if this preference fails the branching-ratio comparisons and the 40 percent estimate lose their basis.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • If correct, $f_0(1790)$ is a mixed state with roughly 40 percent glueball intensity rather than a pure glueball.
  • The ratio $\mathrm{BR}[J/\psi \to \gamma(\omega\phi)]/\mathrm{BR}[J/\psi \to \gamma(\rho\rho)]$ should be $4/3$ for a flavour-singlet glueball component, and current data agree.
  • The absence of a $0^+$ signal in $K^*\bar K^*$ is explained by threshold smearing from the $K^*$ width, not by a selection rule.
  • The scalar glueball is shared among $f_0(1370)$, $f_0(1500)$, $f_0(1710)$ and $f_0(1790)$, so the otherwise extra scalar meson in this mass range is absorbed into a mixing scheme only when $f_0(1790)$ is included.
  • The $\omega\phi$ threshold peak becomes a new observable diagnostic for glueball content in radiative $J/\psi$ decays.

Reading between the lines

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  • Beyond the paper: the same threshold-locking argument predicts that a sharp two-vector threshold can dominate the decay of any scalar resonance near it; this could be tested by looking for similar threshold enhancements in $\omega\omega$ or $\phi\phi$ channels in radiative decays.
  • Beyond the paper: if the 40 percent glueball intensity is right, a precise measurement of the $f_0(1790)$ line shape near the $\omega\phi$ threshold should show the predicted real-part peak, which is directly extractable from the mass spectrum.
  • Beyond the paper: the dispersive mechanism implies that the $f_0(1790)$'s width and line shape in the $\omega\phi$ channel depend on the $K^*$ width; varying the $K^*$ width in a coupled-channel analysis would quantify the suppression of $K^*\bar K^*$.
  • Beyond the paper: the analogous phase-locked-loop behavior suggests that threshold sharpness, not just coupling strength, decides which decay channel a resonance locks to; this could resolve why some hadron candidates show highly asymmetric branching fractions to nearby two-vector thresholds.
Original abstract

The omega-phi threshold peak observed by BES in J/Psi -> gamma(omega-phi) may be interpreted quantitatively in terms of a glueball component in fo(1790).

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The omega-phi threshold peak observed by BES in J/Psi -> gamma(omega-phi) may be interpreted quantitatively in terms of a glueball component in fo(1790).

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