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Virtual quarks, vacuum stability and scalar meson physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Results are reviewed, which provide relations between the response (and eventual instability) of the chiral QCD vacuum to an increase of the number of massless quarks in the theory and the observed violations of the large NcN_c expansion in the scalar meson sector, by combining chiral perturbation theory expansions in msm_s with sum rule methods. An approach based on the construction of scalar form-factors was recently confirmed by an independent approach which uses the πK\pi K scattering amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0111329,
  title  = {Virtual quarks, vacuum stability and scalar meson physics},
  author = {B. Moussallam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0111329},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

7 pages, Talk given at " Chiral fluctuations in hadronic matter international workshop", Orsay, September 26-28, 2001

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