2001/11/13 by S.N. Cherry, Cherry, S. N., M. R. Pennington +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0111158
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We apply QCD Finite Energy Sum Rules to the scalar-isoscalar current to determine the lightest u u + d d meson in this channel. We use `pinch-weights' to improve the reliability of the QCD predictions and reduce the sensitivity to the cut-off s0. A decaying exponential is included in the weight function to allow us to focus on the contribution from low mass states to the phenomenological integral. On the theoretical side we include OPE contributions up to dimension six and a contribution due to instantons taken from the Instanton Liquid Model. Phenomenologically, we incorporate experimental data by using a coupling scheme for the scalar current which links the vacuum polarisation to the ππ scattering amplitude via the scalar form factor. We find that the sum rules are well saturated for certain instanton parameters. We conclude that the f0(400-1200) definitely contains a large u u + d d component, whereas the f0(980) most likely does not. We are able to estimate the average light quark mass and find mq(1 \GeV) = 5.2 ± 0.6 MeV.