Meson resonances at large N-C: Complex poles vs Breit-Wigner masses

The rigorous quantum mechanical definition of a resonance requires determining the pole position in the second Riemann sheet of the analytically continued partial wave scattering amplitude in the complex Mandelstam s variable plane. For meson resonances we investigate the alternative Breit–Wigner (B...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Nieves, Juan Miguel, Ruiz Arriola, E.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/20830
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/20830
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Chiral symmetries
Large N-C
Unitarization
Resonances
Scalar meson
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Sumario:The rigorous quantum mechanical definition of a resonance requires determining the pole position in the second Riemann sheet of the analytically continued partial wave scattering amplitude in the complex Mandelstam s variable plane. For meson resonances we investigate the alternative Breit–Wigner (BW) definition within the large NC expansion. By assuming that the pole position is View the MathML source and exploiting unitarity, we show that the BW determination of the resonance mass differs from the pole position by View the MathML source terms, which can be extracted from ππ scattering data. For the case of the σ (f0(600)) pole, the BW scalar mass is predicted to occur at not, vert, similar700 MeV while the true value is located at not, vert, similar800 MeV.