Physics Letters B 781 (2018) 279–282
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The
structure,
mixing
angle,
mass
and
couplings
of
the
light
scalar
f
0
(
500
)
and
f
0
(
980
)
mesons
S.S. Agaev
a,
K. Azizi
b,
c,
∗
,
H. Sundu
daInstituteforPhysicalProblems,BakuStateUniversity,Az-1148Baku,Azerbaijan bDepartmentofPhysics,Doˇgu ¸sUniversity,Acibadem-Kadiköy,34722Istanbul,Turkey
cSchoolofPhysics,InstituteforResearchinFundamentalSciences(IPM),P. O. Box19395-5531,Tehran,Iran dDepartmentofPhysics,KocaeliUniversity,41380 Izmit,Turkey
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Articlehistory:
Received30November2017
Receivedinrevisedform16January2018 Accepted31March2018
Availableonline5April2018 Editor: J.-P.Blaizot
Themixingangle,massandcouplingsofthelightscalarmesons f0(500)and f0(980)arecalculatedin theframeworkofQCDtwo-pointsumruleapproachbyassumingthattheyaretetraquarkswithdiquark– antidiquarkstructures. Themesonsaretreatedasmixturesoftheheavy|H= ([su][¯su¯]+ [sd][¯sd¯])/√2 and light|L= [ud][¯ud¯] scalar diquark–antidiquark components. We extract from corresponding sum rulesthemixingangles
ϕ
H andϕ
Lofthesestatesandevaluatethemassesandcouplingsoftheparticlesf0(500)and f0(980).
©2018TheAuthor(s).PublishedbyElsevierB.V.ThisisanopenaccessarticleundertheCCBYlicense (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).FundedbySCOAP3.
1. Introduction
Lightscalarmesonsthat resideintheregionm
<
1GeV ofthe mesonspectroscopyaresourcesoflong-standingproblemsforthe conventional quark model. The standard approach when treating mesons as bound states of a quark and an antiquark qq meets¯
withevident troublesto include f0
(
500)
and f0(
980)
, aswell assome other lightparticles into thisscheme:There are discrepan-ciesbetweenpredictionsofthismodelforamasshierarchyoflight scalarsandmeasuredmassesoftheseparticles.Therefore,for in-stance,the f0
(
980)
mesonwasalreadyconsideredasafour–quarkstatewithq2q
¯
2content[1].During passed decades physicists made great efforts to un-derstand features of the light scalar mesons: They were treated as meson–meson molecules [2–5], or considered as diquark– antidiquarkbound states[6,7].These modelsstimulated not only qualitative analysis of the light scalar mesons, but also allowed one to calculate their parameters using different methods. Thus, inRef. [8] masses ofthe f0
(
500)
, f0(
980)
,a0(
980)
and K0∗(
800)
mesonswere evaluatedin thecontextof therelativisticdiquark– antidiquark approach and nice agreements with the data were found.Therearegrowingunderstandingthatthemesonsfromthe lightscalars’nonetareexoticparticlesoratleastcontain substan-tialmultiquark components:lattice simulations andexperimental dataseemsupportthesesuggestions.Furtherinformationon
rele-*
Correspondingauthor.E-mailaddress:kazizi@dogus.edu.tr(K. Azizi).
vanttheoreticalideasandmodels,aswellasonexperimentaldata canbefoundinoriginalandreviewarticles[9–13].
Intensive studiesof thelight scalars astetraquark stateswere carriedoutusingQCDsumrulesmethod[14–22].Essentialpartof these investigations confirmed assignment of thelight scalars as tetraquarkstatesdespitethefactthattoexplainexperimentaldata in some of them authors had to introduce various modifications toapurediquark–antidiquarkpictureandtotreattheparticlesas a mixtureofdiquark–antidiquarkswithdifferentflavor structures [18], or assuperpositions of diquark–antidiquark andqq compo-
¯
nents [20–22]. There was alsothe article(see, Ref. [19]), results ofwhich didnotsupport an interpretationofthe lightscalars as diquark–antidiquarkboundstates.
Asisseen,theoreticalanalysesperformedevenwithinthesame methodleadtodifferentconclusions abouttheinternalstructures ofthemesonsfromthelightscalarnonet.Oneshouldaddtothis picture also large errorsfrom whichsuffer experimental dataon themassesandwidthsoftheseparticles[23] tounderstand diffi-cultyofexistingproblems.
2. Mixingschemes
An approach to the nonet of light scalars as mixtures of tetraquarks belonging to different representations of the color group wasrecentlyproposed inRef.[24].Inaccordancewiththis approachthenonetofthe lightspin-0mesonscan beconsidered as tetraquarks composed of the color (3c) and flavor (3f) an-titripletscalardiquarks.Then,thesetetraquarksintheflavorspace forma nonet ofthe scalar particles 3f
⊗
3f=
8f⊕
1f.In order https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.03.0850370-2693/©2018TheAuthor(s).PublishedbyElsevierB.V.ThisisanopenaccessarticleundertheCCBYlicense(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Fundedby SCOAP3.
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toembrace thesecond nonetofthescalar mesonsoccupyingthe regionabove 1GeV spin-1diquarksbelongingtothecolor–flavor representation(6c
,
3f) can beused. Thetetraquarks builtofthe spin-1diquarkshavethesameflavorstructureasonesconstructed fromspin-0diquarks,andthereforecanmixwiththem.InthepresentLetterwe restrictourselvesby consideringonly the first nonet ofthe scalar particles. Therefore, inwhat follows weneglecttheirpossiblemixingwithtetraquarkscomposedofthe spin-1 diquarks. The flavor singlet and octet components of this nonethavethestructures
|
1f=
1√
3[
su][
su] + [
ds][
ds] + [
ud][
ud]
,
|
8f=
1√
6[
ds][
ds] + [
su][
su] −
2[
ud][
ud]
,
thatintheexactSUf
(
3)
symmetrycanbedirectlyidentifiedwith thephysical mesons.Butthe realscalarparticles are mixturesof thesestates, andin thesinglet-octet basis and one-angle mixing schemehavethedecomposition|
f|
f=
U(θ )
|
1f|
8f,
U(θ )
=
cosθ
−
sinθ
sinθ
cosθ
,
(1)where,forthesakeofsimplicity,wedenote f
=
f0(
500)
and f=
f0(
980)
, andθ
is the corresponding mixing angle. Alternatively,onecanintroducetheheavy-lightbasis
|
H=
√
1 2[
su][
su] + [
ds][
ds]
,
|
L= [
ud][
ud],
(2)andforthephysicalmesonsgettheexpansion
|
f|
f=
U(
ϕ
)
|
H|
L.
(3)Here we use
ϕ
as the mixingangle in the heavy-lightbasis. An emerged situation isfamiliar to one from analysisof the mixing problemsinthenonetofthepseudoscalarmesons,namelyintheη
−
η
system[25–27].Theheavy-lightbasisinthecaseunder con-siderationissimilartothequark–flavorbasisemployedthere.The mixinganglesinthetwo basisare connectedbythesimple rela-tiontan
θ
=
√
2 tan
ϕ
+
1tan
ϕ
−
√
2.
(4)Ingeneral, one mayintroducealso two-anglesmixing scheme ifitleadstoabetterdescriptionoftheexperimentaldata
|
f|
f=
U(
ϕ
H,ϕ
L)
|
H|
L,
U(
ϕ
H,ϕ
L)
=
cosϕ
H−
sinϕ
L sinϕ
H cosϕ
L.
(5)Thecouplingsinthe f
−
fsystemcanbedefinedintheform 0|
Ji|
f(
p)
=
Fifmf,
0|
Ji|
f(
p)
=
Fifmf,
i=
H,
L.
(6) We suggest that the couplings followpattern of state mixingin both one- and two-angles scheme. In the general case of two-anglesmixingschemethisimpliesfulfillment oftheequality FHf FLf FHf FLf=
U(
ϕ
H,ϕ
L)
FH 0 0 FL,
(7)whereFH andFL maybeformallyinterpretedascouplingsofthe “particles”
|
Hand|
L.Currents JH
(
x)
and JL(
x)
inEq.(6) thatcorrespondto|
Hand
|
LstatesaregivenbytheexpressionsJH
(
x)
=
dab
dce
√
2 uTa(
x)
Cγ
5sb(
x)
uc
(
x)
γ
5C sTe(
x)
+
dTa(
x)
Cγ
5sb(
x)
dc
(
x)
γ
5C sTe(
x)
,
(8) and JL(
x)
=
dab
dceuaT
(
x)
Cγ
5db(
x)
uc
(
x)
γ
5Cd T e(
x)
,
(9)wherea
,
b,
c,
d and e arecolorindicesandC isthecharge conju-gationoperator.ThentheinterpolatingcurrentsforphysicalstatesJf
(
x)
and Jf(
x)
taketheforms Jf(
x)
Jf(
x)
=
U(
ϕ
H,ϕ
L)
JH(
x)
JL(
x)
.
(10)Inthesimplecaseofone-anglemixingschemeEq. (10) transforms tothefamiliarsuperpositions
Jf
(
x)
=
JH(
x)
cosϕ
−
JL(
x)
sinϕ
,
Jf
(
x)
=
JH(
x)
sinϕ
+
JL(
x)
cosϕ
.
(11)
Thesecurrentsortheirmorecomplicatedformsinthetwo-angles mixingschememaybeusedinQCDsumrulecalculationsto eval-uatethemassesandcouplingsofthemesons f and f.
3. Sumrules
Atthefirststageofourcalculationswederivethesumrulefor themixingangle
ϕ
ofthe f−
fsystem.Tothisend,weusethe heavy-lightbasisandone-anglemixingschemeandstartfromthe correlationfunction[28](
p)
=
id4xeip·x
0|
T
{
Jf(
x)
Jf†(
0)
}|
0.
(12)The sumruleobtainedusing
(
p)
allowustofixthemixing an-gleϕ
.In fact,because the currents Jf(
x)
and Jf(
x)
createonly|
fand|
fmesons, respectively,aphenomenological expression forthecorrelatorPhys
(
p)
equalstozero.Thenthesecond ingredi-entofthesumrule,namelyexpressionofthecorrelationfunction calculated in terms of quark–gluon degrees of freedomOPE
(
p)
should beequaltozero.BecauseOPE
(
p)
dependsonthemixing angleϕ
,itisnotdifficulttofindtan 2
ϕ
=
2OPEH L
(
p)
OPELL
(
p)
−
OPEH H(
p)
,
(13) wherei j
(
p)
=
i d4xeip·x0|
T
{
Ji(
x)
Jj†(
0)
}|
0.
(14)Inderiving ofEq. (13) webenefitedfromthefact that
OPEH L
(
p)
=
OPEL H
(
p)
,whichcanbeprovedbyexplicitcalculations.After apply-ing the Boreltransformation andperforming requiredcontinuum subtractionsonecanemployittoevaluateϕ
.Having found the mixing angle we proceed andevaluate the spectroscopicparametersofthemesons f and f.Thecorrelation functions
f
(
p)
=
i d4xeip·x0|
T
{
Jf(
x)
Jf †(
0)
}|
0,
f
(
p)
=
i d4xeip·x0|
T
{
Jf(
x)
Jf†(
0)
}|
0,
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Fig. 1. The tan 2ϕ(a), and the masses mf (b) and mf(c) in the two-angles mixing scheme as functions of the Borel parameter M2at fixed s 0.
are appropriate for thesepurposes and can be utilized to derive therelevant sumrules. Theexpression of
f
(
p)
interms ofthe physicalparametersofthe f mesonisgivenbythefollowing sim-pleformulaPhysf
(
p)
=
0|
Jf
|
f(
p)
f
(
p)
|
Jf †|
0m2f
−
p2+ . . . ,
wherethe dots stand for contributions of the higher resonances andcontinuum states.Usingtheinterpolatingcurrentandmatrix elementsofthe f mesonfromEqs.(11) and(6) itisaeasytaskto showthat
Physf
(
p)
=
m 2 f m2f−
p2 FHcos2ϕ
+
FLsin2ϕ
2+ . . . .
Aftercalculatingthecorrelationfunction
OPEf
(
p)
andapplyingthe Borel transformation in conjunction with continuum subtraction onegetsthesumrulem2f
FHcos2ϕ
+
FLsin2ϕ
2 e−m2f/M2=
f(
s0,
M2),
(16)where
f
(
s0,
M2)
=
B
OPEf(
p)
istheBoreltransformedandsub-tractedexpressionof
OPEf
(
p)
withM2 ands0 beingtheBoreland
continuum threshold parameters, respectively. Thissum rule and anotherone obtainedfromEq.(16) bymeansofthestandard op-eration d
/
d(
−
1/
M2)
can be used to evaluate the mass of the fmeson.
Thesimilaranalysisfor fyields
m2f
FHsin2ϕ
+
FLcos2ϕ
2 e−m2f/M 2=
f(
s0,
M2).
(17)FromEqs.(16) and(17) itisalsopossibletoextract
FHcos2
ϕ
+
FLsin2
ϕ
2
and
FHsin2
ϕ
+
FLcos2ϕ
2
forevaluating ofthe cou-plings FH and FL, but they may suffer fromlarge uncertainties: Weinsteadevaluate FH andFLfromsumrulesforthescalar “par-ticles”
|
Hand|
L,usingto thisendcorrelationfunctionsH
(
p)
andL
(
p)
givenbyEq. (15),where Jf(
x)
and Jf
(
x)
arereplaced by JH(
x)
and JL(
x)
,respectively.4. Numericalresults
Incalculationsweutilizethelightquarkpropagator
Sabq
(
x)
=
iδ
ab/
x 2π
2x4− δ
ab mq 4π
2x2− δ
ab qq 12+
iδ
ab/
xmqqq 48− δ
ab x2 192qgsσ
Gq+
iδ
ab x2/
xmq 1152qgsσ
Gq−
i gsG αβ ab 32π
2x2/
xσ
αβ+
σ
αβ/
x−
iδ
ab x2/
xg2sqq2 7776− δ
ab x4g2 sG2 27648
+ . . . ,
(18)andtake intoaccount quark,gluonandmixedoperatorsupto di-mensiontwelve.Thevacuumexpectationsvaluesoftheoperators usedinnumericalcomputationsarewellknown:
¯
qq= −(
0.
24±
0.
01)
3 GeV3,¯
ss=
0.
8¯
qq, qgsσ
Gq=
m20qq, sgsσ
Gs=
m20¯ss
,α
sG2/
π
= (
0.
012±
0.
004)
GeV4, g3sG3= (
0.
57±
0.
29)
GeV6,wherem20
= (
0.
8±
0.
1)
GeV2.TheworkingregionsfortheBorelandcontinuumthreshold pa-rametersarefixedinthefollowingform
M2
= (
1.
1−
1.
3)
GeV2,
s0= (
1.
4–1.
6)
GeV2,
(19)thatsatisfystandardrequirementsofsumrulescomputations.For example,atthelowerlimitoftheBorelparameterthesumofthe dimension-10,11and12termsin
LL
(
s0,
M2)
−
H H(
s0,
M2)
doesnotexceed5% ofallcontributions.Attheupperboundofthe work-ing windowforM2 thepolecontributiontothesamequantity is larger than 0
.
12 of the whole result, which is typical for multi-quark systems. Variation of the auxiliary parameters M2 and s0
withintheregions(19),aswellasuncertaintiesoftheotherinput parametersgeneratetheoreticalerrorsofsumrulescomputations. The tan 2
ϕ
extracted using Eq. (13), as is seen from Fig. 1 (a), demonstratesamilddependenceonM2.Asaresult,itisnot diffi-culttoestimatethatϕ
= −
27◦.
66±
1◦.
24.
(20)This value of
ϕ
in the heavy-light basis is equivalent toθ
=
−
33◦.
00±
1◦.
17 inthesinglet-octetbasis.UsingEq.(20) itisnot difficult toevaluate the mesons’ massesinthe one-angle mixing schemethatreadmf
= (
597±
81)
MeV,
mf= (
902±
125)
MeV. (21) Asisseen,the one-anglemixingscheme,iftakeintoaccount the centralvaluesfromEq.(21),doesnotdescribecorrectlythe exper-imental data: it overshoots the mass of the f0(
500)
mesonand,atthesametime,underestimatesthemassofthe f0
(
980)
meson.The agreement can be improved by introducing the two mixing angles
ϕ
H andϕ
L. It turnsout that to achieve a niceagreement withtheavailableexperimental dataitisenoughto varyϕ
H andϕ
L withinthelimits(20):ϕ
H= −
28◦.
87±
0◦.
42,
ϕ
L= −
27◦.
66±
0◦.
31.
(22) Formf andmf thesumruleswithtwomixinganglesϕ
H andϕ
L leadtopredictions282 S.S. Agaev et al. / Physics Letters B 781 (2018) 279–282
mf
= (
518±
74)
MeV,
mf= (
996±
130)
MeV,
(23) whichare compatiblewithexperimental data.Thetheoretical er-rorsinEq.(23) accumulateuncertainties connectedwith M2 ands0,aswellasarisingfromotherinputparameters.Thedependence
ofmf andmf on theauxiliary parameters M2 and s0 doesnot
exceed limitsallowed forsuch kindof calculations: In Figs. 1(b) and1(c) weplotmf andmf asfunctionsoftheBorelparameter toconfirmastabilityofcorrespondingsumrules.
In the two-angle mixing scheme the system of the physical particles f
−
fischaracterizedbyfourcouplings(7).After deter-miningthemixinganglesϕ
H andϕ
L thatfixthematrixU(
ϕ
H,ϕ
L)
, quantitieswhichshouldbefoundfromtherelevantsumrulesare onlythecouplingsFH andFL.Aswehavementionedabovetothis endweconsidertwoadditionalsumrulesby treatingbasicstates|
Hand|
Lasreal“particles”andobtainFH
= (
1.
35±
0.
34)
·
10−3GeV4,
FL= (
0.
68±
0.
17)
·
10−3GeV4.
(24)
ThecouplingFH calculatedinthepresentworkiscomparablewith onefoundinRef. [16] usingthesameinterpolatingcurrent(8) and vacuum condensates up to dimension six and is given by FH
=
(
1.
51±
0.
14)
·
10−3GeV4.The mixing angles
(
ϕ
H,
ϕ
L)
, the masses(
mf,
mf)
and the couplings(
FH,
FL)
completethesetofthespectroscopic parame-tersofthe f0(
500)
and f0(
980)
mesons.5. Concludingnotes
The investigation performed in the present Letter has al-lowedustocalculatethemassandcouplingsofthe f0
(
500)
and f0(
980)
mesonsbytreating themasthemixturesofthediquark–antidiquarks
|
Hand|
L.Wehavedemonstratedthatbychoosing the heavy-light basis and mixing anglesϕ
H= −
28◦.
87±
0◦.
42 andϕ
L= −
27◦.
66±
0◦.
31 a reasonable agreement with exper-imental data can be achieved even information on the f0(
500)
meson suffers from large uncertainties [23]. The assumption on structures of the light mesons made in the present work deter-minesalsotheir possibledecaymechanisms. Indeed,it isknown that the dominant decay channels of the f0
(
500)
and f0(
980)
mesons are f0
(
500)
→
π π
and f0(
980)
→
π π
processes. Inex-perimentsthedecay f0
(
980)
→
K K wasseen,aswell.Themixingof the
|
H and|
L diquark–antidiquark states to formthe physi-cal mesons implies that all of thesedecays can run through the superallowedOkubo–Zweig–Iizuka (OZI)mechanism:Withoutthe mixing the decay f0(
980)
→
π π
can proceed dueto one gluonexchange, whereas f0
(
980)
→
K K is still OZI superallowedpro-cess[16]. The another problemthat finds its naturalexplanation within the mixing framework is a large difference between the
full widthof themesons f0
(
500)
and f0(
980)
, whichamount to=
400−
700 MeV and=
10−
100MeV [23], respectively. In fact, the strong couplings gf0(500)π π and gf0(980)π π thatdeter-minethewidthofthedominantpartialdecays f0
(
500)
→
π π
and f0(
980)
→
π π
dependonthemixingangleϕ
L intheform g2f0(500)π π∝
1 sin2ϕ
L,
g2f0(980)π π∝
1 cos2ϕ
L.
(25)Inthemodelunderconsiderationthisdependenceisamainsource thatgeneratesthenumericaldifferencebetweenthepartialwidth ofaforementionedprocesses,andhencebetweenthefullwidthof themesons f0
(
500)
and f0(
980)
.Analysis of the partial decays of the mesons f0
(
500)
and f0(
980)
,aswellascalculationofthe spectroscopicparameters ofother light scalarmesons deservesfurther detailedinvestigations resultsofwhichwillbepublishedelsewhere.
Acknowledgement
K. A.thanks TÜBITAKforthepartialfinancialsupportprovided underGrantNo.115F183.
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