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Chiral dynamics in form factors, spectral-function sum rules, meson-meson scattering and semilocal duality

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-05-30 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

In this work, we perform the one-loop calculation of the scalar and pseudoscalar form factors in the framework of U(3) chiral perturbation theory with explicit tree level exchanges of resonances. The meson-meson scattering calculation from Ref.[1] is extended as well. The spectral functions of the nonet scalar-scalar (SS) and pseudoscalar-pseudoscalar (PP) correlators are constructed by using the corresponding form factors. After fitting the unknown parameters to the scattering data, we discuss the resonance content of the resulting scattering amplitudes. We also study spectral-function sum rules in the SS-SS, PP-PP and SS-PP sectors as well as semi-local duality from scattering. The former relate the scalar and pseudoscalar spectra between themselves while the latter mainly connects the scalar spectrum with the vector one. Finally we investigate these items as a function of Nc for Nc > 3. All these results pose strong constraints on the scalar dynamics and spectroscopy that are discussed. They are successfully fulfilled by our meson-meson scattering amplitudes and spectral functions.

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@article{arxiv.1206.4163,
  title  = {Chiral dynamics in form factors, spectral-function sum rules, meson-meson scattering and semilocal duality},
  author = {Zhi-Hui Guo and J. A. Oller and J. Ruiz de Elvira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.4163},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

45 pages, 17 figures and 4 tables. To match the published version in PRD: a new paragraph is added in the Introduction and two new references are included