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Precision dispersive approaches versus unitarized chiral perturbation theory for the lightest scalar resonances sigma/f(0)(500) and kappa/K*(0)(700)

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2021-06-16
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Rodas, Arkaitz
Ruiz de Elvira Carrascal, Jacobo
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Springer Heidelberg
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For several decades, the sigma/f(0)(500) and kappa/K*(0)(700) resonances have been subject to long-standing debate. Both their existence and properties were controversial until very recently. In this tutorial review, we compare model-independent dispersive and analytic techniques versus unitarized Chiral Perturbation Theory, when applied to the lightest scalar mesons sigma/f(0)(500) and kappa/K*(0)(700). Generically, the former have settled the long-standing controversy about the existence of these states, providing a precise determination of their parameters, whereas unitarization of chiral effective theories allows us to understand their nature, spectroscopic classification and dependence on QCD parameters. Here we review in a pedagogical way their uses, advantages and caveats.
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© 2021 Springer Heidelberg. We acknowledge J.A. Oller for encouraging us to write a tutorial review on this topic. We thank I. Danilkin for his corrections on the manuscript. This project has received funding from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion grant PID2019-106080GB-C21 and the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 824093 (STRONG2020). AR acknowledges the financial support of the U.S. Department of Energy contract DE-SC0018416 at William & Mary, and contract DE-AC05-06OR23177, under which Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, manages and operates Jefferson Lab. JRE acknowledges financial support from the Swiss National Science Foundation under Project No. PZ00P2174228.
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