The Jigsaw Puzzle of Scalar Mesons

Abstract

This is a brief overview of light scalar meson spectroscopy, addressing longstanding problems, recent developments and future perspectives. In particular, a new comprehensive data analysis is introduced which will help to unravel the structure of the f_0(980).

Comments: 3 pages, 1 postscript figure, to appear in the conference Proceedings of "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum IV", Villasimius (Italy), Sept. 21-25, 2004