Hadronic decays of η and η′ with coupled channels Original Research Article

The hadronic decays η→πππ, η′→πππ and η′→ηππ are investigated within a U(3) chiral unitary approach. Final state interactions are included by deriving the effective s-wave potentials for meson–meson scattering from the chiral effective Lagrangian and iterating them in a Bethe–Salpeter equation. With only a small set of parameters we are able to explain both rates and spectral shapes of these decays.