The light scalar mesons within quark models
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
Low-energy meson-meson scattering data are a powerful testing ground for quark models. Here, we describe the behaviour at threshold of S-wave scattering-matrix singularities. The majority of the full scattering-matrix mesonic poles stem from an underlying confinement spectrum. However, the light scalar mesons K0*(830), a0(980), f0(400-1200), and f0(980) do not, but instead originate in 3P0-barrier semi-bound states. We show that the behaviour of the corresponding poles is identical at threshold. In passing, the light-meson sector is given a firm basis.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0211411,
title = {The light scalar mesons within quark models},
author = {Eef van Beveren and George Rupp and Nicholas Petropoulos and Frieder Kleefeld},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0211411},
year = {2008}
}
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Plain LaTeX, 16 pages Contribution to the Second International Workshop on Hadron Physics, Effective Theories of Low Energy QCD, 25-29 September, 2002 (Coimbra, Portugal)