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Hadronic-loop induced mass shifts in scalar heavy-light mesons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We calculate the mass shifts of heavy-light scalar mesons due to hadronic loops under the assumption that these vanish for the groundstate heavy-light mesons. The results show that the masses calculated in quark models can be reduced significantly. We stress that the mass alone is not a signal for a molecular interpretation. Both the resulting mass and the width suggest the observed D0D_0^* state could be a dressed cqˉc\bar q state. We give further predictions for the bottom scalar mesons which can be used to test the dressing mechanism.

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@article{arxiv.0712.2953,
  title  = {Hadronic-loop induced mass shifts in scalar heavy-light mesons},
  author = {Feng-Kun Guo and Siegfried Krewald and Ulf-G. Meissner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.2953},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

14 pages, 2 figures. Version accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B