Glueball Decay in Holographic QCD
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چکیده
Using holographic QCD based on D4-branes and D8-anti-D8-branes, we have computed couplings of glueballs to light mesons. We describe glueball decay by explicitly calculating its decay widths and branching ratios. Interestingly, while glueballs remain less well understood both theoretically and experimentally, our results are found to be consistent with the experimental data for the scalar glueball candidate f0(1500). More generally, holographic QCD predicts that decay of any glueball to 4π0 is surpressed, and that mixing of the lightest glueball with qq̄ mesons is small.
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