dominance of the f0(980) meson

1998/11/30 by R. Delbourgo, R Delbourgo, Dongsheng Liu +2 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(98)01538-x

published as Phys.Lett.B446:332-335,1999 · 10 pages, including figures. Parts of captions 1 and 3 reversed in replacement, to appear in Physics Letters B

arxiv created 1998/12/02 · openalex publication_date 1999/01/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We prove that recent data demonstrates unequivocally that the scalar meson f₀(980) is mostly composed of ss quarks and that the coupling of f₀ to photons and mesons is in agreement with the linear sigma model.

Citations

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