Isospin symmetry breaking in double-pion production in the region of ${d^*(2380)}$ and the scalar ${\sigma}$ meson

Abstract

The first attempt is made to provide a quantitative theoretical interpretation of the WASA-at-COSY experimental data on the basic double-pion production reactions $pn \to d \pi^0\pi^0$ and $pn \to d \pi^+\pi^-$ in the energy region $T_p =1$ - $1.3$ GeV [P. Adlarson et al., Phys. Lett. B 721, 229 (2013)]. The data are analyzed within a model based on production and decay of an intermediate $I(J^P)=0(3^+)$ dibaryon resonance $\mathcal{D}_{03}$ (denoted also as $d^*(2380)$). The observed decrease of the near-threshold enhancement (the so-called ABC effect) in the reaction $pn \to d \pi^+\pi^-$ in comparison to that in the reaction $pn \to d \pi^0\pi^0$ is explained (at least partially) to be due to isospin symmetry violation in the two-pion decay of an intermediate near-threshold scalar $\sigma$ meson emitted from the $\mathcal{D}_{03}$ dibaryon resonance under conditions of the partial chiral symmetry restoration.