Role of a four-quark and a glueball state in pion-pion and pion-nucleon scattering

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We consider the two-flavor version of the extended linear sigma model (eLSM), which contains (pseudo)scalar and (axial-)vector quark-antiquark mesons, a scalar glueball (predominantly corresponding to $f_{0}(1710)$), as well as the nucleon and its chiral partner.

• We extend this model by the additional light scalar meson $f_{0}(500)$, predominantly a putative four-quark state.
• We investigate various interaction terms of the four-quark and glueball states with the other particles, some of which preserve and some of which explicitly break the $U(1)_{\textrm{A}}$ symmetry.
• We test our model by performing a global fit to masses and decay widths of the scalar resonances and pion-pion scattering lengths.