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Title: Lattice QCD study of the scalar mesons a{sub 0}(1450) and {sigma}(600)

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Jefferson Lab, 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, Virginia 23606 (United States)
  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506 (United States)
  3. Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100039 (China)
  4. Department of Physics, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052 (United States)
  5. Department of Physics, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota 55104 (United States)
  6. Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027 (China)

We study the a{sub 0} and {sigma} mesons with the overlap fermion in the chiral regime with the pion mass as low as 182 MeV in the quenched approximation. After the {eta}{sup '}{pi} ghost states are separated, we find the a{sub 0} mass with the qq interpolation field to be almost independent of the quark mass in the region below the strange quark mass. The chirally extrapolated results are consistent with a{sub 0}(1450) being the ud meson and K{sub 0}*(1430) being the us meson with calculated masses at 1.42{+-}0.13 GeV and 1.41{+-}0.12 GeV, respectively. We also calculate the scalar mesonium with a tetraquark interpolation field. In addition to the two-pion scattering states, we find a state at {approx}550 MeV. Through the study of volume dependence, we confirm that this state is a one-particle state, in contrast to the two-pion scattering states. This suggests that the observed state is a tetraquark mesonium which is quite possibly the {sigma}(600) meson.

OSTI ID:
21023935
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 76, Issue 11; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.114505; (c) 2007 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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