A new look at scalar mesons

Abstract

Light scalar mesons are found to fit rather well a diquark-antidiquark description. The resulting nonet obeys mass formulae which respect, to a good extent, the OZI rule. OZI allowed strong decays are reasonably reproduced by a single amplitude describing the switch of a qbar-q pair, which transforms the state into two colourless pseudoscalar mesons. Predicted heavy states with one or more quarks replaced by charm or beauty are briefly described; they should give rise to narrow states with exotic quantum numbers.

4 pages, 1 figure, misprints corrected, references added, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett

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