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Two or Four: A Hint from Scalar Mesons in Radiative phi Decays ?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

In this write-up, we summarize our recent analysis of radiative decays involving light scalar mesons. Our analysis using the vector meson dominance model at tree level indicates that it may be difficult to distinguish qqqˉqˉqq\bar{q}\bar{q} picture and qqˉq\bar{q} picture for the light scalar nonet. Our result on the process of ϕπ0ηγ\phi \to \pi^0 \eta \gamma shows that the derivative-type f0KKˉf_0 K\bar{K} interaction reproduces experimental data below 950 GeV well, but gives a poor fit above 950 GeV, i.e., in the energy region around the mass of a0(980)a_0(980), but that the discrepancy can be compensated by the effect of the KK loop.

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@article{arxiv.0705.0802,
  title  = {Two or Four: A Hint from Scalar Mesons in Radiative phi Decays ?},
  author = {Deirdre Black and Masayasu Harada and Joseph Schechter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.0802},
  year   = {2008}
}
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