TY - JOUR AU - Du, Meng-Lin AU - Guo, Feng-Kun AU - Hanhart, Christoph AU - Kubis, Bastian AU - Meißner, Ulf-G. TI - Where Is the Lightest Charmed Scalar Meson? JO - Physical review letters VL - 126 IS - 19 SN - 1079-7114 CY - College Park, Md. PB - APS M1 - FZJ-2021-02197 SP - 192001 PY - 2021 AB - The lightest charmed scalar meson is known as the D∗0(2300), which is one of the earliest new hadron resonances observed at modern B factories. We show here that the parameters assigned to the lightest scalar D meson are in conflict with the precise LHCb data of the decay B−→D+π−π−. On the contrary, these data can be well described by an unitarized chiral amplitude containing a much lighter charmed scalar meson, the D∗0(2100). We also extract the low-energy S-wave Dπ phase of the decay B−→D+π−π− from the data in a model-independent way, and show that its difference from the Dπ scattering phase shift can be traced back to an intermediate ρ− exchange. Our work highlights that an analysis of data consistent with chiral symmetry, unitarity, and analyticity is mandatory in order to extract the properties of the ground-state scalar mesons in the singly heavy sector correctly, in analogy to the light scalar mesons f0(500) and K∗0(700) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - 34047611 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000652838800002 DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.192001 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/892608 ER -