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Nature of Light Scalar Mesons in Bright Light of Photon-Photon Collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-09-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The surprising thing is that the light scalar meson problem, arising 50 years ago from the linear sigma model (LSM) with spontaneously broken chiral symmetry, has become central in the nonperturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD), because it has been made clear that LSM could be the low energy realization of QCD. First, we review briefly signs of four-quark nature of light scalars. Then we show that the light scalars are produced in the two-photon collisions via four-quark transitions in contrast to the classic P wave tensor q\bar q mesons that are produced via two-quark transitions \gamma\gamma->q\bar q. Thus we get new evidence of the four-quark nature of the lower scalar states.

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@article{arxiv.1009.3404,
  title  = {Nature of Light Scalar Mesons in Bright Light of Photon-Photon Collisions},
  author = {N. N. Achasov and G. N. Shestakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.3404},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

8 pages, 14 figures. The talk given by G.N. Shestakov at the International Seminar "Quarks-2010", Kolomna, Russia, June 6-12, 2010