Insights on scalar mesons from their radiative decays

Abstract

We estimate the rates for radiative transitions of the lightest scalar mesons f_0(980) and a_0(980) to the vector mesons rho and omega. We argue that measurements of the radiative decays of those scalar mesons can provide important new information on their structure.

20 pages, 5 figures; appendix added, to be published in Phys. Rev. C

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