The glueball content of
Renqiang Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China, School of Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China); Wei Sun (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China)
; Ying Chen (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China, School of Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China); Ming Gong (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China, School of Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China)
; Long-Cheng Gui (Department of Physics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, PR China, Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control of Ministry of Education, Changsha, PR China, Synergetic Innovation Center for Quantum Effects and Applications (SICQEA), Hunan Normal University, Changsha, PR China)
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We carry out the first lattice QCD derivation of the mixing energy and the mixing angle of the pseudoscalar charmonium and glueball on two gauge ensembles with degenerate dynamical charm quarks. The mixing energy is determined to be MeV on the near physical charm ensemble, which seems insensitive to charm quark mass. By the assumption that is predominantly a pseudoscalar glueball, the mixing angle is determined to be approximately , which results in a MeV mass shift of the ground state pseudoscalar charmonium. In the mean time, the mixing can raise the total width of the pseudoscalar charmonium by 7.2(8) MeV, which explains to some extent the relative large total width of the meson. As a result, the branching fraction of can be understood in this -glueball mixing framework. On the other hand, the possible discrepancy of the theoretical predictions and the experimental results of the partial width of cannot be alleviated by the -glueball mixing picture yet, which demands future precise experimental measurements of this partial width.