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The quadratic pion scalar radius, <r^2>^\pi_s, plays an important role for present precise determinations of \pi\pi scattering. The solution of the Muskhelishvili-Omn\`es equations for the non-strange null isospin (I) pion scalar form…
The pion scalar radius is given by $<r^2_S>=(6/\pi)\int_{4M^2_\pi}^\infty{\rm d}s \delta_S(s)/s^2$, with $\delta_S$ the phase of the scalar form factor. Below $\bar{K}K$ threshold, $\delta_S=\delta_\pi$, $\delta_\pi$ being the isoscalar,…
The scalar radius of the pion plays an important role in CHPT, because it is related to one of the basic effective coupling constants, viz. the one which controls the quark mass dependence of F_pi at one loop. In a recent paper, Yndurain…
We calculate the scalar form factor of the pion using two dynamical flavors of non-perturbatively $\mathcal{O}(a)$-improved Wilson fermions, including both the connected and the disconnected contribution to the relevant correlation…
The pion scalar radius is given by $<r^2_S>=(6/\pi)\int_{4M^2_\pi}^\infty{\rm d}t \delta_S(t)/t^2$, with $\delta_S$ the phase of the scalar form factor. Below $\bar{K}K$ threshold, $\delta_S=\delta_0$, $\delta_0$ being the isoscalar, S-wave…
The pion scalar form factor along with all existing S-wave iso-scalar $\pi\pi$-scattering phase shift data in the elastic region up to $1 {\rm GeV}^2$ are applied for a determination of the $f_0(500)$ and $f_0(980)$ meson parameters…
We study isospin-1 P-wave $\pi\pi$ scattering in lattice QCD with two flavours of O($a$) improved Wilson fermions. For pion masses ranging from $m_\pi=265$ MeV to $m_\pi=437$ MeV, we determine the energy spectrum in the centre-of-mass frame…
We present a lattice QCD calculation of the pion scalar form factor and associated radii with fully controlled systematics. Lattice results are computed on a large set of 17 gauge ensembles with $N_f=2+1$ Wilson Clover-improved sea quarks.…
We consider the quadratic scalar radius of the pion, $<r^2_{{\rm S},\pi}>$, and the mixed $K-\pi$ scalar radius, $<r^2_{{\rm S},K\pi}>$. With respect to the second, we point out that the more recent (post-1974) experimental results in…
We present a coupled system of integral equations for the pi pi --> Nbar N and Kbar K --> Nbar N S-waves derived from Roy-Steiner equations for pion-nucleon scattering. We discuss the solution of the corresponding two-channel…
Based on the recently proposed Roy-Steiner equations for pion-nucleon scattering, we derive a system of coupled integral equations for the pi pi --> N-bar N and K-bar K --> N-bar N S-waves. These equations take the form of a two-channel…
Phase shifts for $s$-wave $\pi\pi$ scattering in both the $I=0$ and $I=2$ channels are determined from a lattice QCD calculation performed on 741 gauge configurations obeying G-parity boundary conditions with a physical pion mass and…
We investigate the pion scalar form factor in the Meiman-Okubo framework, implementing the phase below the inelastic $K\bar K$ threshold, where it is known from the $\pi\pi$ scalar isoscalar phase shift $\delta_0^0$ by Watson theorem.…
We calculate pion vector and scalar form factors in two-flavor lattice QCD and study the chiral behavior of the vector and scalar radii <r^2>_{V,S}. For a direct comparison with chiral perturbation theory (ChPT), chiral symmetry is exactly…
Dispersive representations of the pi-pi scattering amplitudes and pion form factors, valid at two-loop accuracy in the low-energy expansion, are constructed in the presence of isospin-breaking effects induced by the difference between the…
We calculate pion vector and scalar form factors in two-flavor lattice QCD and study the chiral behavior of the vector and scalar radii <r^2>_{V,S}. Numerical simulations are carried out on a 16^3 x 32 lattice at a lattice spacing of 0.12…
We present an investigation of the electromagnetic pion form factor, $F_\pi(Q^2)$, at small values of the four-momentum transfer $Q^2$ ($\lesssim 0.25$ GeV$^2$), based on the gauge configurations generated by European Twisted Mass…
The problem of determining the pion electromagnetic formfactor $F(q^2)$ in the space-like region from the value of its modulus in the time-like region is solved by the formfactor analyticity. If $F(q^2)$has no zeroes in the complex plane…
The electromagnetic pion form factor, $F_\pi(q^2)$, is calculated for spacelike-$q^2$ in impulse approximation using a confining quark propagator, $S$, and a dressed quark-photon vertex, $\Gamma_\mu$, obtained from realistic,…
Using a holographic dual model of QCD, we compute the pion electromagnetic form factor F_pi(Q^2) in the spacelike momentum transfer region, as well as pion couplings to vector mesons g_rho^(n) pi pi. Spontaneous and explicit chiral symmetry…