TY - CONF A1 - Daldrop, Jan Oliver A1 - Urbach, Carsten A1 - Alexandrou, Constantia A1 - Gravina, Mario A1 - Dalla Brida, Mattia A1 - Scorzato, Luigi A1 - Wagner, Marc T1 - Lattice investigation of the tetraquark candidates a0(980) and kappa T2 - Proceedings of Science N2 - It is a long discussed issue whether light scalar mesons have sizeable four-quark components. We present an exploratory study of this question using Nf = 2+1+1 twisted mass lattice QCD. A mixed action approach ignoring disconnected contributions is used to calculate correlatormatrices consisting of mesonic molecule, diquark-antidiquark and two-meson interpolating operators with quantum numbers of the scalar mesons a0(980) (1(0++)) and k (1/2(0+)). The correlation matrices are analyzed by solving the generalized eigenvalue problem. The theoretically expected free two-particle scattering states are identified, while no additional low lying states are observed. We do not observe indications for bound four-quark states in the channels investigated. Y1 - 2012 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/27486 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-274866 SN - 1824-8039 N1 - The 30th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory June 24 – 29, 2012 Cairns, Australia VL - 2012 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati CY - Trieste ER -