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Can experiment distinguish tetraquark scalars, molecules and $\qq$ mesons?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Scalar mesons are a key expression of the strong coupling regime of QCD. How those with I3=0I_3=0 couple to two photons supplies important information about which is transiently qˉq{\bar q}q or qqˉqq{\bar {qq}} qq or multi-meson molecule or largely glue, provided (i) we know the location of the corresponding poles in the complex energy plane, and (ii) we have reliable predictions from strong coupling QCD of the radiative widths for these compositions. Number (i) is being supplied by careful analyses of high statistics data particularly that coming from BB, DD, J/ψJ/\psi and ϕ\phi decays. Number (ii) is still required, before we can answer the question in the title.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0703256,
  title  = {Can experiment distinguish tetraquark scalars, molecules and $\qq$ mesons?},
  author = {M. R. Pennington},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0703256},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

16 pages, 6 figures Invited talk at the Yukawa International Seminars (YKIS) 2006 "New Frontiers in QCD: Exotic Hadrons & Hadronic Matter", Nov.-Dec. 2006