Search for scalar glueballs from heavy meson decays

We investigate the transition form factors of B meson decays into a scalar glueball in the light-cone formalism. Compared with form factors of B to ordinary scalar mesons, the B-to-glueball form factors have the same power in the expansion of 1/m(B). Taking into account the leading twist light-cone distribution amplitude, we find that they are numerically smaller than those form factors of B to ordinary scalar mesons. In the presence of mixing between glueballs and ordinary scalar mesons, the possibility to extract the mixing parameters from semileptonic B decays and nonleptonic B decays are explored. We also point out a clean way to identify a glueball through B-c decays.