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Jean-Marie Frere

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Prospects for new glueballs and exotics searches

Glueballs and Hybrids are solid predictions of QCD, but none have this far been identified in an undisputable way. We list several strategies, including the very promising search for "cascade" decays of glueballs and hybrids into each others, and mention the yet under-exploited sources in heavy ion collisions

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Is the Lorentz limiting speed equal to the Speed of Light? Photons vs Neutrino tests

We discuss the possibility that the limiting speed (c_l) appearing in Lorentz equations might be different i.e., slightly larger than the observed speed of light (c_n). We show that such a possibility can be tested by state-of-the-art Michelson-Morley experiments, but also by careful measurement of neutrino speeds. It would indeed suffice to show that c_n < c_neutrinos <= c_l. Quite interestingly, current limits from both approaches are competitive, in some circumstances. We also comment on competing tests using gamma-ray burst, assuming a dispersive character for the propagation of light.

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