Glueball production in hadron and nucleus collisions

TL;DR

This paper explores the hypothesis that high-energy hadron and nucleus collisions produce glueballs abundantly from gluon-rich environments, focusing on specific decay modes and their implications.

Contribution

It proposes a detailed hypothesis on glueball production mechanisms and decay modes in high-energy collisions, emphasizing gluon-rich conditions.

Findings

Glueballs are likely copiously produced in high-energy collisions.

Specific decay modes of glueballs are identified and discussed.

Implications for detecting glueballs in experimental settings.

Abstract

We elaborate on the hypothesis that in high energy hadron hadron and nucleus nucleus collisions the lowest mass glueballs are copiously produced from the gluon rich environment especially at high energy density. We discuss the particular glueball decay modes: $0^{++}, 2^{++} \to K \bar{K}$ and $0^{++} \to \pi^{+} \pi^{-} \ell^{+} \ell^{-}$.