EXPERIMENTAL STATUS OF SCALAR AND TENSOR MESONS

The recent discoveries of a(0)(1450) and f(o)(1370)/f(o)(1500) in anti proton-proton annihilation at rest shed new light on the interpretatio n of light scaler mesons. The properties of f(o)(1500) match the expec tations of a scalar glueball mixed with nearby <q(q)over bar> states. New decay modes of the xi(2230) are reported in radiative J/psi decays , pointing also towards a (tensor) glueball nature of this state. Resu lts from different experiments are discussed and compared.