Scalar mesons and glueball in B-decays and gluon jets

2003/04/15 by Peter Minkowski, Minkowski, Peter, Wolfgang Ochs +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Physics and Python Applications #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0304144

13 pages

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Abstract

We discuss the recent observation of f₀(980) in charmless B-decays and in gluon jets which hints toward a gluonic coupling of this meson similar to eta'. Further predictions on B-decays into scalar particles are presented. Charmless B decays also show a broad K Kbar (and possibly pi pi) S-wave enhancement which we relate to the 0⁺⁺ glueball. These gluonic mesons represent a sizable fraction of the theoretically derived decay rate for b -> sg.

Citations

• Study of charmless B decays to three-kaon final states
• Glueballs, Hybrids and Q Q Mesons
• Measurements of the branching fractions of chargedBdecays toK±π∓π±final states

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