Nature of Light Scalar Mesons in Bright Light of Photon-Photon Collisions

TL;DR

This paper explores the nature of light scalar mesons, showing they are produced via four-quark transitions in photon-photon collisions, providing evidence for their four-quark structure and linking the linear sigma model to nonperturbative QCD.

Contribution

It demonstrates that light scalar mesons are produced through four-quark transitions in photon-photon collisions, supporting their four-quark nature and connecting the linear sigma model to QCD.

Findings

Light scalars are produced via four-quark transitions in b3b3 collisions.

Evidence supports the four-quark structure of light scalar mesons.

Contrasts production mechanisms of scalar mesons with tensor mesons.

Abstract

The surprising thing is that the light scalar meson problem, arising 50 years ago from the linear sigma model (LSM) with spontaneously broken chiral symmetry, has become central in the nonperturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD), because it has been made clear that LSM could be the low energy realization of QCD. First, we review briefly signs of four-quark nature of light scalars. Then we show that the light scalars are produced in the two-photon collisions via four-quark transitions in contrast to the classic P wave tensor q\bar q mesons that are produced via two-quark transitions \gamma\gamma->q\bar q. Thus we get new evidence of the four-quark nature of the lower scalar states.