Published October 1, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Enhanced non-quark-antiquark and non-glueball Nc behavior of light scalar mesons

  • 1. Departamento de Fisica Teorica II, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid (Spain)

Description

We show that the latest and very precise dispersive data analyses require a large and very unnatural fine-tuning of the 1/Nc expansion at Nc=3 if the f0(600) and K(800) light scalar mesons are to be considered predominantly qq states, which is not needed for light vector mesons. For this, we use scattering observables whose 1/Nc corrections are suppressed further than one power of 1/Nc for qq or glueball states, thus enhancing contributions of other nature. This is achieved without using unitarized ChPT, but if it is used we can also show that it is not just that the coefficients of the 1/Nc expansion are unnatural, but that the expansion itself does not even follow the expected 1/Nc scaling of a glueball or a qq meson.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
84
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 074003-074003.5
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
43086776
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
CORRECTIONS; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPANSION; GLUEBALLS; QUARK-ANTIQUARK INTERACTIONS; SCALAR MESONS; SCALING; SCATTERING; VECTOR MESONS
Descriptors DEC
BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; HADRONS; INTERACTIONS; MESONS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS

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(c) 2011 American Institute of Physics