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Light scalar mesons as manifestation of spontaneously broken chiral symmetry

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Attention is paid to the production mechanisms of light scalars that reveal their nature. We reveal the chiral shielding of the σ(600) meson. We show that the kaon loop mechanism of the φ radiative decays, ratified by experiment, points to the four-quark nature of light scalars. We show also that the light scalars are produced in the two photon collisions via four-quark transitions in contrast to the classic P wave tensor q \( \bar q \) mesons that are produced via two-quark transitions γγ → q \( \bar q \). The history of spontaneous breaking of symmetry in quantum physics is discussed in Appendix.

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Talk at The International Bogolyubov Conference “Problems of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics” devoted to the 100th anniversary of N.N. Bogolyubov’s birth that was held from August 21 to August 22, 2009 in Moscow at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and from August 23 to August 27, 2009 in Dubna at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR).)

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Achasov, N.N. Light scalar mesons as manifestation of spontaneously broken chiral symmetry. Phys. Part. Nuclei 41, 891–895 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779610060134

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