Glueball decay in the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model

by Frederic Brunner

Thursday 2 Jul 2015, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Rome

248 (Building C, first floor)

I present new results on glueball decay in the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model, a holographic top-down approach to low energy QCD. I give a brief introduction to glueballs and discuss our calculations, which favour an identification of f_0(1710) as the lightest scalar glueball.