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Comparing the Broken U3xU3 Linear Sigma Model with Experiment. U3xU3

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

The linear sigma model with broken U3xU3 is compared with data on the lightest scalar and pseudoscalar mesons. When 5 of the 6 parameters are fixed by the pseudoscalar masses and decay constants one finds that, already at the tree level, a reasonable description for the 4 scalar masses, mixing and up to 8 tri-linear couplings of lightest scalars, taken as a0(980), f0(980), sigma(500) and K*0(1430). This clearly indicates that these scalars are the chiral partners of the pi, eta, eta', K and strongly suggests that they like the latter are (unitarized) quark-antiquark states.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9905282,
  title  = {Comparing the Broken U3xU3 Linear Sigma Model with Experiment. U3xU3},
  author = {Nils A. Tornqvist},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9905282},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

12 pages revtex, 1 figure, 2 tables, minor corrections, To appear in Eur. Phys. Journal C