QCD tests of the puzzling scalar mesons
- Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Astrophysiques, Universite de Montpellier II, Place Eugene Bataillon, 34095 - Montpellier Cedex 05 (France)
Motivated by several recent data, we test the QCD spectral sum rules (QSSR) predictions based on different proposals (qq, qqqq, and gluonium) for the nature of scalar mesons. In the I=1 and 1/2 channels, the unusual wrong splitting between the a{sub 0}(980) and {kappa}(900) and the a{sub 0}(980) width can be understood from QSSR within a qq assignment. However, none of the qq and qqqq results can explain the large {kappa} width, which may suggest that it can result from a strong interference with nonresonant backgrounds. In the I=0 channel, QSSR and some low-energy theorems (LET) require the existence of a low mass gluonium {sigma}{sub B}(1 GeV) coupled strongly to Goldstone boson pairs which plays in the U(1){sub V} channel, a similar role as the {eta}{sup '} for the value of the U(1){sub A} topological charge. The observed {sigma}(600) and f{sub 0}(980) mesons result from a maximal mixing between the gluonium {sigma}{sub B} and qq (1 GeV) mesons, a mixing scheme which passes several experimental tests. Okubo-Zweig-Izuki (OZI) violating J/{psi}{yields}{phi}{pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -}, D{sub s}{yields}3{pi} decays, and J/{psi}{yields}{gamma}S glueball filter processes may indicate that the f{sub 0}(1500), f{sub 0}(1710), and f{sub 0}(1790) have significant gluonium components in their wave functions, while the f{sub 0}(1370) is mostly qq. Tests of these results can be provided by the measurements of the pure gluonium {eta}{sup '}{eta} and 4{pi} specific U(1){sub A} decay channels.
- OSTI ID:
- 20774811
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 73, Issue 11; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.114024; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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