Glueballs of QCD and beyond

There are two methods discussed by which glueballs might be found. In the first, an OZI suppressed channel with variable mass is used, such as the reaction ..pi../sup -/p ..-->.. phi phi n. The breakdown of the OZI suppression is the glueball signal. The OZI suppression is a filter letting glueballs pass while strongly rejecting conventional hadronic states. The other method is to look in a channel enriched in gluons such as the radiative decay of the J/psi and search for new phenomena, such as the iota(1440), the theta(1640), and the zeta(2220). It is anticipated that the next step in nested gauge-gauge groups might be some new strong color interaction conceptually similar to hypercolor, technicolor, or extended technicolor. 43 refs., 13 figs. (LEW