  Les We present a new perspective on the scalar meson puzzle from spontaneous
breaking of chiral symmetry beyond BCS. We find that going beyond BCS does not
produce a systematic shift of the hadron spectrum. We also show that coupled
channels reduce the breaking of chiral symmetry, with the same Feynman diagrams
that appear in the coupling of a scalar meson to a pair of pseudoscalar mesons.
With a Lattice QCD inspired quark-quark interaction, we find that the
groundstate I=0, 3P0 quark antiquark meson is the f0(980) with a partial decay
width of 40MeV. We also find a 30% reduction of the chiral condensate due to
coupled channels.
