Continuum Limit of Scalar Masses and Mixing Energies

Abstract

We evaluate the continuum limit of the valence approximation to the mass of scalar quarkonium and to the scalar quarkonium-glueball mixing energy for a range of different quark masses. Our results answer several questions raised by the proposed identification of $f_0(1710)$ as composed primarily of the lightest scalar glueball.

Comments: 3 pages, 2 PostScript figures, LATTICE98(spectrum), one reference corrected