Scrutinizing the light scalar quarkonia from LSR at higher orders

Abstract

We scrutinize, improve some determinations of the masses and couplings of light scalar quarkonia (q¯q and four-quark states) and present new results for the π+π−,K+K−,… molecules using QCD Laplace Sum Rule (LSR) truncated at the D=6 dimension vacuum condensates. We pay a special attention on the higher order perturbative (PT) corrections up to the (estimated) O(αs5) which improve the quality of the analysis. We request that the optimal results obey the rigorous constraint: Resonance ≥ QCD continuum contributions (RP/C≥1) in the LSR which excludes a Breit-Wigner/on-shell (not to be confused with a complex pole) scalar meson mass around (500-600) MeV obtained for values [tc≤(1∼1.5) GeV2] of the QCD continuum threshold. Mass-splittings due to SU(3) breakings are small. We discuss the different assignments of the observed scalar mesons below 2 GeV in the Conclusions where the I=0 states are compared with the scalar gluonia. The results are compiled in Tables 3 to 6. We hope that the systematic analysis done in this paper helps to clarify the complex spectra of the light scalar mesons.