Identification of a Scalar Glueball

Abstract

We perform a coupled channel study of the meson-meson S waves with isospin (I) 0 and 1/2 up to 2 GeV. A new approach is derived that allows one to include the many channels pipi, KK[over ], etaeta, sigmasigma, etaeta; eta; eta; , rhorho, omegaomega, omegavarphi, varphivarphi, a(1)pi, and pipi with still few free parameters. It follows that coupled channel dynamics is strong and cannot be neglected in order to study resonance properties in the region 1.4-1.6 GeV. All the resonances with masses below 2 GeV and I=0 and 1/2 are generated. We identify the f(0)(1710) and an important contribution to the f (0)(1500) as an unmixed glueball. This is based on an accurate agreement of our results with predictions of lattice QCD and the chiral suppression of the coupling of a scalar glueball to q[over ]q. Another pole, mainly corresponding to the f_{0}(1370), is a pure octet state.