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Decays of sigma, kappa, a0(980) and fo(980)

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-01-07 v2

Abstract

Ratios of coupling constants for these decays are compared with q-qbar predictions and Jaffe's 4-quark model. In both models, the predicted ratio g^2(kappa -> K-pi)/ g^2(sigma -> pi-pi) is much too small. Also, for q-qbar, the predicted ratio g^2(kappa -> K-eta ')/g^2(kappa -> K-pi) is much larger than observed. Both models fail for g^2(fo -> KK)/g^2(a0 -> KK). This ratio requires that fo has a dominant KK component. It arises naturally because the fo pole lies very close to the KK threshold, giving its wave function a long KK tail.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0603089,
  title  = {Decays of sigma, kappa, a0(980) and fo(980)},
  author = {D. V. Bugg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0603089},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

13 pages, 2 figures, Small addition on systematic errors