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Scalar meson and glueball decays within a effective chiral approach

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

We study the strong and electromagnetic decay properties of scalar mesons above 1 GeV within a chiral approach. The scalar-isoscalar states are treated as mixed states of quarkonia and glueball configurations. A fit to the experimental decay rates listed by the Particle Data group is performed to extract phenomenological constraints on the nature of the scalar resonances. A comparison to other theoretical approaches in the scalar meson sector is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0504033,
  title  = {Scalar meson and glueball decays within a effective chiral approach},
  author = {F. Giacosa and Th. Gutsche and V. E. Lyubovitskij and Amand Faessler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0504033},
  year   = {2008}
}

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13 pages, accepted for publication in PLB