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Scalar mesons: fifty years of challenging the quark model

2018/06/01 by Rupp, George, van Beveren, Eef
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1806.00364

Abstract

Half a century of work on the light scalar mesons f0(500), f0(980), K0^⋆(700), and a0(980) is briefly reviewed. After summarising all light scalar candidates in the Review of Particle Physics since 1963, a selection of different theoretical and phenomenological descriptions is presented, including pure meson-meson models, a tetraquark construction, unitarised quark-meson models, unitarised effective chiral approaches, and a very recent lattice-QCD simulation.

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