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Comment on "Mass and Width of the Lowest Resonance in QCD"

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

I. Caprini's, G. Colangelo's, and H. Leutwyler's (CCL) article "Mass and Width of the Lowest Resonance in QCD", Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 132001 (2006) [hep-ph/0512364], is critically reviewed. The present comment is devoted to complement a recent experimental discussion (D.V. Bugg, J. Phys. G 34, 151 (2007) [hep-ph/0608081]) of short-comings in the CCL analysis, by presenting theoretical arguments pointing at a serious flaw in the theoretical formalism used by CCL, and also at the unlikeliness of their tiny error bars in the sigma-meson mass and width. The criticism made in the comment applies analogously to the analysis on the kappa-meson mass performed in the article "The K0*(800) scalar resonance from Roy-Steiner representations of pi K scattering" published as S. Descotes-Genon and B. Moussallam, Eur. Phys. J. C 48, 553 (2006) [hep-ph/0607133].

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@article{arxiv.0704.1337,
  title  = {Comment on "Mass and Width of the Lowest Resonance in QCD"},
  author = {F. Kleefeld},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.1337},
  year   = {2007}
}

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