Spectra and hadronic couplings of light hermaphrodite mesons

We clarify the discrepancies of previous results for the masses and decay amplitudes of hermaphrodite mesons obtained from QCD sum rules. We study the case of the strange quark within a light quark expansion formalism. We find that the hermaphrodite masses are much higher than the ones of their ordinary meson partners. Our values of the set of masses and continuum thresholds are compared with some other sum rule results. We analyze the hadronic couplings of the isovector 1-+ exotic hermaphrodite rho-tilde using a three-point function sum rule evaluated at the symmetric euclidean point. We find that the rho-tilde can be very broad and prefers to decay into rhoπ and K*K. Its most characteristic decays are the ones into πγ, etaπ and eta'π. The former and the latter are of the order of (3 to 8) MeV. (author)