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Meson vacuum phenomenology in a three-flavor linear sigma model with (axial-)vector mesons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-20 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, and axial-vector mesons with non-strange and strange quantum numbers in the framework of a linear sigma model with global chiral U(Nf)L×U(Nf)RU(N_f)_L \times U(N_f)_R symmetry. We perform a global fit of meson masses, decay widths, as well as decay amplitudes. The quality of the fit is, for a hadronic model that does not consider isospin-breaking effects, surprisingly good. We also investigate the question whether the scalar qˉq\bar{q}q states lie below or above 1 GeV and find the scalar states above 1 GeV to be preferred as qˉq\bar{q}q states. Additionally, we also describe the axial-vector resonances as qˉq\bar{q}q states.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1208.0585,
  title  = {Meson vacuum phenomenology in a three-flavor linear sigma model with (axial-)vector mesons},
  author = {Denis Parganlija and Peter Kovacs and Gyorgy Wolf and Francesco Giacosa and Dirk H. Rischke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.0585},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

29 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables. v2 is the updated version after referee remarks (dilaton field discussed, a new figure added)