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Nature of the light scalar mesons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Despite the apparent simplicity of meson spectroscopy, light scalar mesons cannot be accommodated in the usual qqˉq\bar q structure. We study the description of the scalar mesons below 2 GeV in terms of the mixing of a chiral nonet of tetraquarks with conventional qqˉq\bar q states. A strong diquark-antidiquark component is found for several states. The consideration of a glueball as dictated by quenched lattice QCD drives a coherent picture of the isoscalar mesons.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0508142,
  title  = {Nature of the light scalar mesons},
  author = {J. Vijande and A. Valcarce and F. Fernandez and B. Silvestre-Brac},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0508142},
  year   = {2008}
}

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14 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D