Theory Seminar

DATE: 2007-11-27 11:00 - 12:00
PLACE: Kenkyu Honkan 2F RM 220
TITLE: Glueball Decay in Holographic QCD
CONTACT: tsuda
SPEAKER: Koji Hashimoto   (RIKEN)
LANGUAGE: English
ABSTRACT: 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 f_0(1500). More generally, holographic QCD predicts that decay of any glueball to 4 pi_0 is surpressed, and that mixing of the lightest glueball with mesons is small. This talk is based on arXiv:0709.2208 done in collaboration with Seiji Terashima and Chung-I Tan.

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