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Low Mass Scalar Mesons and Related Topics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We give a brief survey on the physical significance of the low-mass scalar mesons in QCD, and also report on recent lattice studies on the sigma and kappa mesons. The importance to explore the in-medium properties of the hadrons is mentioned.

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@article{arxiv.0705.0072,
  title  = {Low Mass Scalar Mesons and Related Topics},
  author = {Teiji Kunihiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.0072},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

talk presented at Yukawa International Seminar(YKIS) 2006 "New Frontiers in QCD -- Exotic Hadrons and Hadronic Matter --", November 20 to December 8, 2006, at Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University. 4 pages.tobe published in the proceedings(Supplemet of Prog. Theor. Phys.)