QCD, OZI, and evidence for glueballs
The characteristics expected from low Q-QCD for the behavior of glueballs and the OZI rule is discussed. The reaction ..pi../sup -/p ..-->.. phi phi n represents on OZI forbidden (hairpin) diagram. It has been observed at the Brookhaven National Laboratory multiparticle spectrometer by the Brookhaven National Laboratory/City College of New York group. The author has shown that the expected OZI suppression is essentially entirely absent and in fact the Isobar Model which does not contain OZI suppression quantitatively explains the observed results. A general evaluation of the special characteristics of the data compared to other related reactions plus the foregoing facts leads the author to conclude that the intervention of glueball resonances is the likely explanation in the context of QCD. Other explanations are shown to be improbable. In particular the hypothesis that decay of a radial excitation of the eta' is responsible for lack of OZI suppression is ruled out. Planned experiments with the purpose of explicity discovering glueballs will be discussed. The OZI rule peculiarities such as violation of crossing symmetry and unitarity are attributed to color confinement.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- OSTI ID:
- 6157956
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-29768; CONF-810376-5; ON: DE81025808; TRN: 81-016285
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 16. rencontre de moriond: nonperturbative QCD: theory and experiment, Les Arcs, France, 15 Mar 1981
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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