[Welcome]
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''.