Universal scale factors relating mesonic fields and quark operators

Abstract

Scale factor matrices relating mesonic fields in chiral Lagrangians and quark-level operators of QCD sum-rules are shown to be constrained by chiral symmetry, resulting in universal scale factors for each chiral nonet. Built upon this interplay between chiral Lagrangians and QCD sum-rules, the scale factors relating the \(a_0\) isotriplet scalar mesons to their underlying composite quark fields were recently determined. It is shown that the same technique when applied to \(K^∗_0\) isodoublet scalars reproduces the same scale factors, confirming the universality property and further validating this connection between chiral Lagrangians and QCD sum-rules, which can have nontrivial impacts on our understanding of the low-energy QCD, in general, and the physics of scalar mesons in particular.