Interactions between heavy mesons and Goldstone bosons from chiral dynamics

Abstract

We calculate the S-wave scattering lengths for charmed mesons scattering off Goldstone bosons and explore their quark mass dependence using chiral perturbation theory up to next-to-leading order as well as a unitarized version of it. The quark mass dependence of all scattering lengths determined in a recent lattice calculation can be reproduced by the unitarized version. We also discuss signals of possible bound states in these observables.

9 pages, 4 figures. New results presented, version accepted for publication in Eur. Phys. J. A