Why f0(600) is not seen on lattice computations?

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In summary, the f0(600)/sigma meson has a broad width decay and a low mass, making it difficult to identify in lattice QCD. Its nature is still up for debate and various theories have been proposed, but no definitive explanation has been found yet. Some suggest it may not even be a true particle, but rather a virtual effect of pion interactions.
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There is a lot of activity around the full identification of the light meson spectrum and the identification of glueballs. For these aims a lot of insight should come from lattice QCD. Presently, not all the resonances seen that appear on PDG review are obtained on lattice. What is the reason for this? Is there any paper written about this matter?

f0(600) or sigma is a resonance with a mass of about 450 MeV and a broad width decay. A large number of authors agree about a large gluonia content of this particle even if there are notable different points of view (e.g. as a tetraquark state). If this is the glueball this is also the ground state of a pure Yang-Mills theory being higher than the ground state of the full QCD (pion). Quarks lower the ground state!

Jon
 
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Lester said:
Presently, not all the resonances seen that appear on PDG review are obtained on lattice.
Choosing the f0 (sigma) to refer to a PDG particle is kind of unfair. They have a note on scalar mesons. Can you post a link to PDG, and indicate how many stars the f0 has ?

Generally speaking, you need to think about what you call a particle. What if the mass is comparable to the width ?
What is the reason for this?
The main reason is simple. In lattice QCD you propagate many many times a configuration with given quantum numbers, and look at the mass distribution obtained. It works well as long as you expect a sharp peak.
Quarks lower the ground state!
The pion is a chiral pseudo-goldstone boson.
 
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Dear humanino,

Thanks for your answer. Here is the link

http://pdg.lbl.gov/2007/listings/m014.pdf

There is a lot of literature about this resonance (initially people did not believe at it). E.g. look at

http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.4452

but also for a different view

http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.2288

About the pion I think that any particle we observe belongs to the spectrum of the theory. Pion should be considered the lower state of QCD and so is its ground state even if I can agree with your description.

Jon
 
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humanino said:
Can you post a link to PDG, and indicate how many stars the f0 has ?

Funny thing, the PDG only gives stars to baryons, not to mesons, leptons, quarks, or even photons. Anyway, the f_0(600) is a very well known state.

Lester, thanks for the link to the diquark /anti-diquark model of the scalar mesons. Very interesting. Of course that would explain a lack of success with lattice calculations.

A lot of the mesons are hard to identify because their quantum numbers cancel between the quark and anti-quark. An interesting pattern is that the b-bbar and c-cbar [tex]J^{PC} = 1^{--}[/tex] i.e. Upsilon and J/psi, both come in very clean, six mass eigenstates, but the corresponding lower mass mesons are quite confused. Lattice gauge calculations can get the lower couple of these resonaces but not the upper ones. It looks suspiciously like parameter fitting to me, in this case the parameter is the quark masses. And simulations of different mesons seems to require the same quark to have different masses, depending on application, LOL.

Even the vector mesons are a little confused. What they now call the omega(2290) used to be called the X(2290). I suspect it is actually a phi(2290) (i.e. an s-sbar). All three have the same quantum numbers ([tex]I^gJ^{PC} = 0^-1^{--}[/tex] so it's a matter of the quark content. I will have to drop by the library and look up the papers on the X(2290) and see what justified putting it in the omega category. For me, my interest is in the context of fitting them as Koide triplets. I typed in the Upsilon and J/psi fits over where people are discussing triality as it seems to be an application:
https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=1770683&postcount=452
 
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Lester said:
There is a lot of activity around the full identification of the light meson spectrum and the identification of glueballs. For these aims a lot of insight should come from lattice QCD. Presently, not all the resonances seen that appear on PDG review are obtained on lattice. What is the reason for this? Is there any paper written about this matter?

f0(600) or sigma is a resonance with a mass of about 450 MeV and a broad width decay. A large number of authors agree about a large gluonia content of this particle even if there are notable different points of view (e.g. as a tetraquark state). If this is the glueball this is also the ground state of a pure Yang-Mills theory being higher than the ground state of the full QCD (pion). Quarks lower the ground state!

Jon

Considering the f0(600)/sigma meson has a width that is generally larger than its mass, I find it no surprise that it doesn't emerge in lattice QCD. Not only that, but you realize that if a "particle" has a width larger than its mass, it is by definition entirely "virtual". There is some debate about the f0(600) being a kinematic effect in pion-pion scattering and such, as there is no clear signal that it actually involves anything other than pion interactions. It doesn't even have a distinct or noticeable radiative decay such that f0(1370) couldn't account for what is seen in that range (seeings f0(1370) also has a large width and very uncertain mass). So... f0(600) might not even be a "particle" at all, maybe just an effect of the pion scattering behavior.

Even if f0(600) is a "particle" in some sense, its mass would no doubt be pushed around a lot by mixing features in the scalar nonet, including the glueball. It may also be classed as a meson-meson molecule like the f0(980) and a0(980) very often are, or as a tetraquark like Jaffe suggested a long time back. It may also be classed as a chiral meson or "chiralon", or partner to the pion, in the event that Ishida's work from last decade was right about it. Somehow, nobody seems to ever produce anything that remotely describes the nature we see, and it seems that every experiment produces a slightly different picture of it, almost as if it changes from experiment to experiment based on the conditions of the tests themselves. This kind of behavior does not bode well for f0(600) being anything but a garbage heap for light scalar signals that don't make any sense.

I wrote a paper some time ago about the idea of tetraquark-meson-glueball mixing that incorporated the sigma resonance, but it was never submitted or published. I never really finished it. Around that same time I read a paper that indicated they had found eight... yes, eight different low-mass scalar resonances in the range 350 to 750 MeV that had smaller widths but acted like a "sigma resonance" with large width and mass around 450 MeV when the resolution of the histogram was to poor to separate the peaks properly. That paper was actually removed within a month after it was first posted, and has never been reposted since to my knowledge.

This is part of the reason why I don't bother with f0(600) any more. I'm just going to wait to see what more experiments are able to reveal... or not reveal... about the "resonance" before I ever consider trying to work on it ever again.
 
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CarlB said:
Funny thing, the PDG only gives stars to baryons, not to mesons, leptons, quarks, or even photons. Anyway, the f_0(600) is a very well known state.

Well known in the sense that everybody was talking about it for a long time after Tornqvist et al brought it back as a recognized resonance of sorts... if you mean it is well known experimentally, I would say not really. There have been plenty of experiments on it, but they tend to produce low statistics and varying results from one to the next. It's not a very clean set of information that we have on f0(600).

CarlB said:
Lester, thanks for the link to the diquark /anti-diquark model of the scalar mesons. Very interesting. Of course that would explain a lack of success with lattice calculations.

Among other things...

CarlB said:
A lot of the mesons are hard to identify because their quantum numbers cancel between the quark and anti-quark. An interesting pattern is that the b-bbar and c-cbar [tex]J^{PC} = 1^{--}[/tex] i.e. Upsilon and J/psi, both come in very clean, six mass eigenstates, but the corresponding lower mass mesons are quite confused. Lattice gauge calculations can get the lower couple of these resonaces but not the upper ones. It looks suspiciously like parameter fitting to me, in this case the parameter is the quark masses. And simulations of different mesons seems to require the same quark to have different masses, depending on application, LOL.

Well, b-bbar and c-cbar are easier to work with because you don't have so much in the way of relativistic corrections. Light quark mesons are fraught with relativistic effects and mixing behaviors that can screw up the nice spectroscopic order that we enjoy in charmonium and bottomonium. That and the strong constant gets incredibly large with light quarks, and hence quite non-perturbative. Not a pretty picture at all...
 

1. Why is f0(600) not seen on lattice computations?

There are several reasons why f0(600) is not seen on lattice computations. One possible explanation is that the mass of f0(600) is close to the mass of the pion, making it difficult to distinguish between the two particles on the lattice. Another reason could be that f0(600) is a very broad resonance, making it challenging to calculate its properties accurately on a discrete lattice.

2. Is the absence of f0(600) on lattice computations due to technical limitations?

While technical limitations may play a role, it is not the sole reason for the absence of f0(600) on lattice computations. The nature of f0(600) as a broad resonance and its proximity to the pion mass also contribute to its absence on lattice computations.

3. Can f0(600) be observed on lattice computations with improved techniques?

There have been attempts to use improved techniques, such as larger lattices and more sophisticated algorithms, to observe f0(600) on lattice computations. However, these efforts have not yet yielded conclusive results, suggesting that the absence of f0(600) on lattice computations is not solely due to technical limitations.

4. Is f0(600) not seen on lattice computations because it is not a physical particle?

There is ongoing debate in the scientific community about the physical nature of f0(600). Some researchers argue that it is a genuine particle, while others suggest that it may be an artifact of the strong interaction. Regardless, the absence of f0(600) on lattice computations does not necessarily imply that it is not a physical particle.

5. What implications does the absence of f0(600) on lattice computations have for the understanding of strong interactions?

The absence of f0(600) on lattice computations does not significantly impact our current understanding of strong interactions. Other methods, such as experimental data and theoretical models, have provided valuable insights into the properties of f0(600) and its role in strong interactions. Additionally, lattice computations have been successful in studying other particles, which have contributed to our understanding of strong interactions.

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