DESY Theory Seminar

Alexey Petrov, "Glueball molecules"

Europe/Berlin
SR4

SR4

Description

Experimental searches for pure glueball states so far yielded no results. This is believed to be because glueballs mix with the qq-bar states. I will discuss an alternative mechanism, the formation of the glueball-meson molecular states. I will argue that the wave functions of already observed excited meson states may contain a significant part due to such molecular states.