On the Quark and Gluon Substructure of the Sigma and other Scalar Mesons

Abstract

Within the increasing experimental evidence of the existence of the I=0 scalar low mass and wide \sigma meson, we review the {\it first} analysis of its quark and gluon substructure from QCD spectral sum rules and some low-energy theorems. The present data favour equal components of \bar uu+ \bar dd and of gg in its wave function, which make the wide sigma and the narrow f_0(980) as \eta'-like particles. A coherent picture of the other I=0 scalar mesons spectra within this mixing scheme is shortly discussed. We also expect the a_0(980) to be the lowest isovector \bar ud state, and the K^*_0(1430) its \bar ds partner.