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Mass and width of the lowest resonance in QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We demonstrate that near the threshold, the pi pi scattering amplitude contains a pole with the quantum numbers of the vacuum - commonly referred to as the sigma - and determine its mass and width within small uncertainties. Our derivation does not involve models or parametrizations, but relies on a straightforward calculation based on the Roy equation for the isoscalar S-wave.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0512364,
  title  = {Mass and width of the lowest resonance in QCD},
  author = {Irinel Caprini and Gilberto Colangelo and Heinrich Leutwyler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0512364},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Revtex, 4 pages, 2 figures, two refences added, minor text changes, version appeared in Phys. Rev. Lett