Meson-meson scattering in two-dimensional QCD

Abstract: We extend the formalism pioneered by Callan, Coote and Gross to investigate the meson-meson scattering within the framework of 't Hooft model, i.e., the two-dimensional QCD in the $N_c\to \infty$ limit. We derive the analytic expressions for various two-body meson-meson scattering amplitudes, concentrating on those quark diagrams which may be identified as the meson-meson contact interaction vertex in the context of the mesonic effective lagrangian in $1/N_c$ expansion. We also carry out a detailed numerical study for the meson-meson scattering for various quark flavors, and observe the near-threshold enhancement in some channels. This may be viewed as the hint of the existence of the tetra-quark state below two-meson threshold.