%0 Book Section %T Coulomb gauge approach to scalar hadrons publisher American Institute of Physics %D 2008 %U 978-0-7354-0554-7 %@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/53321 %X The Coulomb gauge model, involving an effective QCD Hamiltonian in the Coulomb gauge, is applied to scalar hadrons. Mass predictions are presented for both conventional q ¯ q meson and q ¯ qq ¯ q tetra-quark states. Mixing matrix elements between these states were also computed and diagonalized to provide a reasonable description of the scalar spectrum below 2 GeV. %~