Photoproduction of scalar mesons using CLAS at JLab
ORAL
Abstract
The search for glueballs has been ongoing for decades. The lightest glueball has been predicted by quenched lattice QCD to have a mass in the range of 1.0-1.7 GeV and $J^{PC}=0^{++}$. The mixing of glueball states with neighbouring meson states complicates their identification. The $f_{0}(1500)$ is one of several candidates for the lightest glueball, whose presence in the $K_{s}^{0}K_{s}^{0}$ channel is investigated in photoproduction using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at Jefferson Lab. This is done by studying the reaction, $\gamma p\rightarrow f_{J}p\rightarrow K_{s}^{0}K_{s}^{0}p\rightarrow2(\pi^{+}\pi^{-})p$ using data from the g12 experiment. A brief description of this analysis, along with a preliminary partial wave analysis results will be presented.
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