Insight into scalar mesons from their radiative decays

2005/12/31 by Yu. S. Kalashnikova, Yu. Kalashnikova, A. E. Kudryavtsev +4 · 49 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Geometry #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Mathematics #Meson #Nuclear physics #Omega #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #Radiative transfer #Scalar (mathematics) #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.73.045203

published in Physical Review C 73(4) (American Institute of Physics) · 20 pages, 5 figures; appendix added, to be published in Phys. Rev. C

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Abstract

We estimate the rates for radiative transitions of the lightest scalar mesons f₀(980) and a₀(980) to the vector mesons \ensuremathρ and \ensuremathω. We argue that measurements of the radiative decays of those scalar mesons can provide important new information on their structure.

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