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Hunting the Scalar Glueball: Prospects for BES III
The search for the ground state scalar glueball G_0 is reviewed. Spin zero
glueballs will have unique dynamical properties if the amplitude
is suppressed by chiral symmetry, as it is to all orders in perturbation
theory: for instance, mixing of G_0 with \bar qq mesons would be suppressed,
radiative J/psi decay would be a filter for new physics in the spin zero
channel, and the decay G_0 \to \bar KK could be enhanced relative to G_0 \to
\pi \pi. These properties are consistent with the identification of f_0(1710)
as the largely unmixed ground state scalar glueball, while recent BES data
implies that f_0(1500) does not contain the dominant glueball admixture. Three
hypotheses are discussed: that G_0 is 1) predominantly f_0(1500) or 2)
predominantly f_0(1710) or 3) is strongly mixed between f_0(1500) and
f_0(1710).Comment: 10 pages, talk presented at CHARM 2006, Beijing IHEP, June 5-7, 2006,
to be published in the proceeding
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