Understanding the scalar meson q anti-q nonet
Apr, 199533 pages
Published in:
- Z.Phys.C 68 (1995) 647-660
e-Print:
- hep-ph/9504372 [hep-ph]
DOI:
PDG: MODE
Report number:
- HU-SEFT-R-1995-05
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Abstract: (arXiv)
It is shown that one can fit the available data on the a0(980), f0(980), f0(1300) and K*0(1430) mesons as a distorted 0++ qq bar nonet using very few (5-6) parameters and an improved version of the unitarized quark model. This includes all light two-pseudoscalar thresholds, constraints from Adler zeroes, flavour symmetric couplings, unitarity and physically acceptable analyticity. The parameters include a bare uu bar or dd bar mass, an over-all coupling constant, a cutoff and a strange quark mass of 100 MeV, which is in accord with expectations from the quark model. It is found that in particular for the a0(980) and f0(980) the KK bar component in the wave function is large, i.e., for a large fraction of the time the qq bar state is transformed into a virtual KK bar pair. This KK bar component, together with a similar component of eta' pi for the a0(980) , and eta eta, eta eta' and eta' eta' components for the f0(980), causes the substantial shift to a lower mass than what is naively expected from the qq bar component alone. Mass, width and mixing parameters, including sheet and pole positions, of the four resonances are given, with a detailed pedagogical discussion of their meaning.Note:
- 35 pages in plain latex (ZPC in press), 10 figures obtainable from the author (TORNQVIST@PHCU.Helsinki.Fi) with regular mail or as a large PS file
- scalar meson: hadron spectroscopy
- scalar meson: multiplet
- multiplet: scalar meson
- a0(980)
- f0(980)
- f0(1300)
- K*0(1430)
- quark
- unitarity
- partial wave analysis
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