23–28 Jun 2014
Columbia University
US/Eastern timezone

Investigation of the tetraquark candidate a_0(980): preliminary results

25 Jun 2014, 11:50
20m
428 Pupin

428 Pupin

Talk Hadron Spectroscopy and Interactions Hadron spectroscopy and interaction

Speaker

Dr Abdou Abdel-Rehim (The Cyprus Institute)

Description

We carry out a study of the light scalar meson a_0(980) employing interpolating field operators of quark-antiquark, diquark-antidiquark, mesonic molecules and two-particle meson operators. Both connected and disconnected quark loops are investigated. We present preliminary results for two ensembles of 2+1 clover fermion gauge configurations generated by the PACS-CS collaboration with pion masses ~300 MeV and ~150 MeV.

Primary author

Dr Abdou Abdel-Rehim (The Cyprus Institute)

Co-authors

Prof. Constantia Alexandrou (University of Cyprus) Dr Giannis Koutsou (The Cyprus Institute) Mr Joshua Berlin (University of Frankfurt) Prof. Marc Wagner (University of Frankfurt) Dr Mario Gravina (University of Cyprus) Dr Mattia Dalla Brida (Trinity College Dublin)

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