We suggest a procedure for detecting the lightest glueball in head-on collision of photons whose center-of-mass energy range 1.3–2 GeV. A phenomenological basis this suggestion is recent evidence scattering light by LHC experiments. With evidence, cross section creation $$\gamma\gamma$$ collisions estimated to be $$\sim$$ 60 nb. The predominant mode decay, predicted from gauge/gravity duality, ...