Why study glueball decays?
). Such decays help the study of and search for glueballs. Because Standard Model glueballs are so ephemeral (decaying almost immediately into more stable decay products) and are only generated in high energy physics, glueballs only arise synthetically in the natural conditions found on Earth that humans can easily observe.
Are glueballs unstable?
Just as all Standard Model mesons and baryons, except the proton, are unstable in isolation, all glueballs are predicted by the Standard Model to be unstable in isolation, with various QCD calculations predicting the total decay width (which is functionally related to half-life) for various glueball states.
How long does it take for cesium 137 to decay?
Cesium-137 has a radioactive half-life of about 30 years and decays by beta decay either to stable barium-137 or a meta-stable form of barium (barium -137m). The metastable isotope (barium -137m) is rapidly converted to stable barium-137 (half-life of about 2 minutes) accompanied by gamma ray emission whose energy is 0.662 MeV.
What is the mass of a glue ball?
Glueballs are predicted by quantum chromodynamics to be massive, despite the fact that gluons themselves have zero rest mass in the Standard Model.