Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8185945 Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements 2010 4 Pages PDF
Abstract
We examine the leading-Nc behavior of the masses and transition matrix elements of some low-lying, few-particle configurations in QCD. A truncation of the Fock space produces an effective, symmetric Hamiltonian that we diagonalize. The lowest eigenvalue is identified as the σ meson if the Hamiltonian is chosen to represent the scalar sector. As an application, the coefficients of the Nc powers are then fit to two-loop Unitarized SU(2) Chiral Perturbation Theory results for the σ mass and width as a function of the number of colors, and we show that those results can be accommodated using the QCD Nc dependence previously derived for matrix elements, without the need for unnatural parameters or fine tunings. Finally, we show a very preliminary good quality fit, estimating the proportion of tetraquark/molecule-like (dominant), qq¯-like (subdominant) and exotic-like (marginal) configurations in the σ.
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