Title

Exploring the Structure of a Possible Light Scalar Nonet

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Joseph Schechter, Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Deirdre Black, Syracuse UniversityFollow
Amir H. Fariborz, Syracuse University

Document Type

Article

Date

8-23-2000

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

We first review the work of the Syracuse group, which uses an effective chiral Lagrangian approach, on meson-meson scattering. An illustration providing evidence for the existence of a strange scalar resonance of mass around 900 MeV is given. An attempt to fit this \kappa (900) together with a similarly obtained \sigma (560) and the well known a_0(980) and f_0(980) into a nonet pattern suggests that the underlying structure is closer to a dual quark-dual antiquark than to a quark-antiquark. A possible mechanism to explain a next higher-in mass scalar meson nonet is also discussed. This involves mixing between q{\bar q} and qq{\bar q} {\bar q} states.

Additional Information

8 pages, 4 figures, invited talk at workshop "Possible Existence of the Light Sigma Resonance and its Implications to Hadron Physics", Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, June 2000 More information available at http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0008246

Recommended Citation

Schechter, Joseph; Black, Deirdre; and Fariborz, Amir H., "Exploring the Structure of a Possible Light Scalar Nonet" (2000). Physics - All Scholarship. 288.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/288

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org

Creative Commons License

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