Interactions between heavy mesons and Goldstone bosons from chiral dynamics

Feng-Kun Guo, Christoph Hanhart, Ulf-G. Meißner

Published 2009-01-12, updated 2009-04-01Version 2

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.