Narrow Results

The scalar-isoscalar, scalar-isotensor and vector-isovector ππ amplitudes are fitted simultaneously to experimental data and to Roy's equations. The resulting amplitudes are compared with those fitted only to experimental data. No additional constraints for the ππ threshold behaviour of the amplitudes are imposed. Threshold parameters are calculated for the amplitudes in the three waves. Spectrum of scalar mesons below 1.8 GeV is found from the analysis of the analytical structure of the fitted amplitudes.

We present a set of once subtracted dispersion relations which implement crossing symmetry conditions for the ππ scattering amplitudes below 1 GeV. We compare and discuss the results obtained for the once and twice subtracted dispersion relations, known as Roy's equations, for three ππ partial JI waves, S0, P and S2. We also show that once subtracted dispersion relations provide a stringent test of crossing and analyticity for ππ partial wave amplitudes, remarkably precise in the 400 to 1.1 GeV region, where the resulting uncertainties are significantly smaller than those coming from standard Roy's equations, given the same input.

We review how the use of recent precise data on kaon decays together with forward dispersion relations (FDR) and Roy's equations allow us to determine the sigma resonance pole position very precisely, by using only experimental input. In addition, we present preliminary results for a modified set of Roy-like equations with only one subtraction, that show a remarkable improvement in the precision around the σ region. We also improve the matching between the parametrizations at low and intermediate energy of the S0 wave, and show that the effect of this on the sigma pole position is negligible.