Decay of the pseudoscalar glueball into vector, axial-vector, scalar and pseudoscalar mesons

We resume the investigation of the ground-state pseudoscalar glueball, J(PC) = 0(-+), by computing its two and three-body decays into vector and axial-vector quarkantiquark meson fields additional to scalar and pseudoscalar mesons through the construction of an interaction chiral Lagrangian that produces these decays. We evaluate the branching ratio, via a parameter-free calculation, by setting the mass of the pseudoscalar glueball to 2.6 GeV as predicted by lattice QCD simulations. We duplicate the computation for the branching ratios for a pseudoscalar glueball mass 2.37 GeV which matches to the measured mass of the resonance X(2370) in the BESIII experiment. The present channels and states are potentially reached and are interesting for the running BESIII and Belle-II experiments and the planned PANDA experiment at FAIR/GSI which will be able to detect the pseudoscalar glueball within the accessible energy range.

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We investigate the ground-state pseudoscalar glueball J(PC) = 0(-+) by calculating its two and three-body decays involving scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, and axial-vector quark-antiquark meson fields. We compute the branching ratios using a parameter-free calculation and assume a mass of 2.6 GeV for the pseudoscalar glueball based on lattice QCD simulations. We also calculate the branching ratios for a pseudoscalar glueball mass of 2.37 GeV, which matches the measured mass of the resonance X(2370) in the BESIII experiment. The results are important for ongoing and planned experiments such as BESIII, Belle-II, and PANDA.