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Insight into the Scalar Mesons from a Lattice Calculation

Mark Alford, R. L. Jaffe

hep-latarXiv:hep-lat/0001023

Abstract

We study the possibility that the light scalar mesons are (qbar qbar q q) states rather than (qbar q). We perform a lattice QCD calculation of pseudoscalar meson scattering amplitudes, ignoring quark loops and quark annihilation, and find indications that for sufficiently heavy quarks there is a stable four-quark bound state with JPC=0++ and non-exotic flavor quantum numbers.

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