Meson-production and the structure of scalar mesons Original Research Article

We used a revised version of the Jülich meson-exchange model for ππ interaction[1] including the πα1-channel to describe the results obtained by the BNL E852 collaboration for S-wave production amplitudes in the ultrarelativistic πN reaction π−p → π0π0n with pion beam momentum of 18.3 GeV[2]. The strong dependence of these data on the momentum transfer t to the nucleon in the region of the f0(980) resonance is explained by means of two competing production mechanisms, the π and the α1, which differ by their interference pattern between resonant-production and non-resonant background.