Hunting for glueballs in electron-positron annihilation

We calculate the cross section for the exclusive production of J(PC)=0(++) glueballs G(0) in association with the J/psi in e(+)e(-) annihilation using the perturbative QCD factorization formalism. The required long-distance matrix element for the glueball is bounded by CUSB data from a search for resonances in radiative Y decay. The cross section for e(+)e(-)-->J/psi+G(0) at roots=10.6 GeV is similar to exclusive charmonium-pair production e(+)e(-)-->J/psi+h for h=eta(c) and chi(c0), and is larger by a factor of 2 than that for h=eta(c)(2S). As the subprocesses gamma(*)-->(c (c) over bar)(c (c) over bar) and gamma(*)-->(c (c) over bar)(gg) are of the same nominal order in perturbative QCD, it is possible that some portion of the anomalously large signal observed by Belle in e(+)e(-)-->J/psiX may actually be due to the production of charmonium-glueball J/psiG(J) pairs.