Limit on the Two-Photon Production of the Glueball Candidate f_J(2220) at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring

Authors

• R. Godang, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
• Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• CLEO Collaboration

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

11-17-1997

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 3829 (1997). Permission to use. http://prl.aps.org/. Copyright © 1997 American Physical Society.

Abstract

We use the CLEO detector at the Cornell e⁺e^- storage ring, CESR, to search for the two-photon production of the glueball candidate f_J (2220) in its decay to K_sK_s. We present a restrictive upper limit on the product of the two-photon partial width and the K_sK_s branching fraction, (Γ_γγ B_KsKs)_fJ(2220). We use this limit to calculate a lower limit on the stickiness, which is a measure of the two-gluon coupling relative to the two-photon coupling. This limit on stickiness indicates that the f_J(2220) has substantial glueball content.