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Chiral Nonet Mixing in $πK$ Scattering

Amir H. Fariborz·Esmaiel Pourjafarabadi·Soodeh Zarepour·S. Mohammad Zebarjad
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The underlying mixing of quark components of scalar mesons is probed in $πK$ scattering within a generalized linear sigma model that contains two scalar meson nonets and two pseudoscalar meson nonets (a quark-antiquark and a four-quark). In the leading order of this model, all free parameters have been previously fixed using the mass spectra and several low-energy parameters known from experiment and consistent predictions have been made. As other predictions of the model, in the present work the isospins $I$= 1/2, 3/2 and $J$=0 projection of $πK$ scattering amplitude (as well as phase shifts) are computed and compared with experiment. In the $I$=1/2 channel, it is shown that within the uncertainties of the model parameters a good agreement with experimental data up to an energy of about 1 GeV is obtained, whereas in the $I$=3/2 channel there is a better agreement with experiment which extends to about 1.4 GeV. The effect of final state interactions of $πK$ in the $I$=1/2 channel is approximated by the K-matrix method and the poles of the unitarized scattering amplitude are found. It is shown that the model predicts a light and broad kappa resonance with a mass and decay width of 670-770 MeV and 640-750 MeV consistent with other prior works. Moreover, the scattering lengths in the $I$=1/2, 3/2 are also computed and shown to qualitatively agree with experiment. The overall predictions presented here further support previous findings that the scalar mesons below and above 1 GeV have substantial underlying mixings and that those below 1 GeV have dominant four-quark substructures while those above 1 GeV are closer to conventional $P$-wave quark-antiquark states.

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Amir H. Fariborz, Esmaiel Pourjafarabadi, Soodeh Zarepour, S. Mohammad Zebarjad. 2016-01-09. Chiral Nonet Mixing in $πK$ Scattering. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.92.113002

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