Probing the substructure of f₀(1370)

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Within an effective nonlinear chiral Lagrangian framework the substructure of f₀(1370) is studied. The investigation is conducted in the context of a global picture of scalar mesons in which the importance of the underlying connections among scalar mesons below and above 1 GeV is recognized and implemented. These connections are due to the mixings among various quark-antiquarks, four-quarks and glue components and play a central role in understanding the properties of scalar mesons. Iterative Monte Carlo simulations are first performed on the 14-dimensional parameter space of the model and sets of points in this parameter space (the global sets) that give an overall agreement with all experimental data on mass spectrum, various decay widths and decay ratios of all isosinglet scalar states below 2 GeV are determined. Then within each global set, subsets that give closest agreement for the properties of f₀(1370) are studied. Unlike the properties of other isosinglet states that show a range of variation within each global set, it is found that there is a clear signal for f₀(1370) to be predominantly a quark-antiquark state with a substantial s s component, together with small remnants of four-quark and glue components.