The $\kappa$ resonance in s wave $\pi K$ scatterings

Abstract

A new unitarization approach incorporated with chiral symmetry is established and applied to study the $\pi K$ elastic scatterings. We demonstrate that the $\kappa$ resonance exists, if the scattering length parameter in the I=1/2, J=0 channel does not deviate much from its value predicted by chiral perturbation theory. The mass and width of the $\kappa$ resonance is found to be $M_{\kappa }=594\pm 79MeV$, ${\Gamma }_{\kappa }=724\pm 332MeV$, obtained by fitting the LASS data up to 1430MeV. Better determination to the pole parameters is possible if the chiral predictions on scattering lengths are taken into account.

Comments: Minor corrections made on discussions and typos. 1 ref. added version to appear in Nuclear Physics A