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Scalar Meson Photoproduction

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

The light-quark non-strange scalar mesons a0(980), f0(980), f0(1370), a0(1450), f0(1500) and f0(1710) are of great interest as there is no generally accepted view of their structure which can encompass q-q-qbar-qbar, molecular, q-qbar and glueball states in various combinations. It has been shown previously that the radiative decays of the scalar mesons to rho and omega are a good probe of their structure and provide good discrimination among models. Scalar meson photoproduction is proposed as an alternative to measuring radiative decays and it is shown that it is a feasible proposition.

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@article{arxiv.0806.3698,
  title  = {Scalar Meson Photoproduction},
  author = {A Donnachie and Yu S Kalashnikova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.3698},
  year   = {2009}
}

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32 pages, 11 figures, 7 tables

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