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Chiral Symmetry Aspects of the Scalars

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-25 v1

Abstract

Electromagnetic decays of the scalar mesons are shown to be constrained by chiral symmetry as a consequence of the fact that, in the chiral limit, the two and three-point functions <SSPP><SS-PP> and <VVS><VVS> satisfy super-convergent dispersion relations. The QCD asymptotic behavior of the latter is canonical and it can be saturated by a finite number of resonances. The corresponding chiral lagrangian for vector and scalar resonances is constructed. Matching to the correct asymptotic structure generates non-minimal terms which have so far been ignored. It is found that the width a0(980)2γa_0(980)\to2\gamma can be naturally reproduced suggesting that the a0(980)a_0(980) is not an exotic particle.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9404353,
  title  = {Chiral Symmetry Aspects of the Scalars},
  author = {B. Moussallam and J. Stern},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9404353},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages(latex)+1 fig (postscript file appended), Talk given at workshop "Two-photon physics from Daphne to lep200 and beyond", IPNO/TH 94-26