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Scalar Meson Workshop
Schedule

(All talks will be held in Kunsela Hall Auditorium)


May 16, 2003

8:00 - 8:45 Registration/welcome

8:45-9:00 Opening remarks
Dr. Mason H. Somerville, President, SUNY Institute of Technology

Plenary Session [A. Fariborz, Chair]

9:00 - 9:55 E. Oset (Valencia), ``Scalar Mesons in a Chiral Unitary Approach: Meson Meson Scattering, Radiative Decay of Vector Mesons and Nuclear pi^0 pi^0 Photoproduction''

10:00 - 10:30 Break

Physics of Light Mesons [F. Sannino, Chair]

10:30 - 11:05 H. Weigel (Tuebingen Univ.), ``A Bethe-Salpeter Description of Light Mesons''

11:10 - 11:45 J. Pelaez (Madrid Univ.), ``Light Meson Resonances from Unitarized Chiral Perturbation Theory''

11:50 - 12:25 C. Hanhart (Inst. fuer Kernphysik, Julich, Germany), ``Investigating Scalar Mesons in Nucleon-Nucleon Collisions''

12:30-2:00 Lunch

Lattice QCD [H. Weigel, Chair]

2:00 - 2:35 R. Jaffe (M.I.T.) ``Insight into the Scalar Mesons from a Lattice Calculation''

2:40 - 3:15 M. Peardon (Trinity Coll., Dublin), ``Simulating the scalar glueball on the lattice''

3:20 - 3:50 Break

Radiative Decays [D. Black, Chair]

3:50 - 4:25 M. Harada (Nagoya University), ``Effective Lagrangian Approach to Radiative Decays Involving Light Scalar Mesons''

4:30 - 5:05 M. DeWitt (North Carolina State U.), ``Radiative Scalar Meson Decays in the Light-Front Quark Model''



May 17, 2003

Plenary Session [M. Ahamady, Chair]

9:00 - 9:55 C. Morningstar (Carnegie Mellon U.), ``Heavy-Quark Mesons: Recent Results from Lattice QCD''

10:00 - 10:30 Group Photo /Break

Effective Theories [M. Harada, Chair]

10:30 - 11:05 E. van Beveren (Coimbra U.), ``Threshold Behavior of Scattering Poles''

11:10 - 11:45 D. Black (J. Lab.), ``Comparing the Higgs Sector with $\pi\pi$ Scattering in the Linear Sigma Model''

11:50 - 12:25 A. Abdel-Rehim (Syracuse U.), ``Effecs of Light Scalar Mesons on $\eta,\eta'\to 3 \pi$



12:30-2:00 Lunch



Effective Models in QCD [J. Oller, Chair]

2:00 - 2:35 F. Sannino (NORDITA), ``Locking Space and Internal Symmetries: Relativistic Vector Condensation

2:40 - 3:15 T.G. Steele (U. of Saskatchewan), `` Gaussian Sum-Rule Analyses of Scalar Gluonium and Quark Mesons''

3:20-3:50 Break

Light Scalars and Glueballs [M. Ishida, Chair]

3:50 - 4:25 P. Page (Los Alamos National Lab.), ``Scalar Glueball-Meson Mixing''

4:30 - 5:05 A.H. Fariborz (SUNYIT), ``Internal Structure of the Scalar Mesons and the Scalar Glueball Mass''

5:10 - 5:45 J. Oller (Murca U., Spain), ``The Mixing Angle of the Lightest Scalar Nonet''

6:30-9:30 Banquet



May 18, 2003

Plenary Session [E. van Beveren, Chair]

9:00-10:00 M. Ishida (Meisei University) ``The present Status of Kappa Meson Properties''

10:00 - 10:30 Break

$D$ Decays and $\kappa$ Meson I[T.G. Steele, Chair]

10:30 - 11:05 M. Dubrovin (Wayne State U.), ``Dalitz Analysis of D-Meson Decays at CLEO''

11:10 - 11:45 I. Bediaga (Rio de Janeiro,CBPF) ``Phase Motion of the Scalar Sigma (500) Meson in $D^+ \to \pi^+\pi^-\pi^+$ Decay''

11:50 - 12:25 B. Meadows (U. of Cincinnati), ``New narrow, charmed-strange resonance from the BaBar Experiment''

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

$D$ Decays and $\kappa$ Meson II [J. Pelaez, Chair]

2:00 - 2:35 C. Gobel (Republica U., Montevideo), ``Indication of Kappa From $D^+\to K^- \pi^+\pi^+$ and Further Studies''

3:40 - 4:15 S. Malvezzi (Milan U.), ``Charm Dalitz Plot Analysis and Scalar Particle Interplay''.