We conduct a two-flavor (Nf=2) lattice QCD calculation of the elastic phase-shifts for pion-pion scattering in the scalar, isoscalar channel (the σ-meson). The calculation is performed for two quark masses corresponding to a pion mass of 315 MeV and 227 MeV. The σ-meson parameters are extracted using various parametrizations of the scattering amplitude. The results obtained from a chiral unitary parametrization are extrapolated to the physical point and read Mσ=(440−16+10(50)−i240(20)(25)) MeV, where the uncertainties in the parentheses denote the stochastic and systematic ones. The behavior of the σ-meson parameters with increasing pion mass is discussed as well.
@article{arxiv.1803.02897,
title = {Extraction of isoscalar $\pi\pi$ phase-shifts from lattice QCD},
author = {Dehua Guo and Andrei Alexandru and Raquel Molina and Maxim Mai and Michael Döring},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.02897},
year = {2018}
}