Excited and exotic charmonium spectroscopy from lattice QCD

Apr, 2012
32 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 07 (2012) 126
e-Print:
Report number:
  • TCDMATH-12-04,
  • JLAB-THY-12-1510

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present a spectrum of highly excited charmonium mesons up to around 4.5 GeV calculated using dynamical lattice QCD. Employing novel computational techniques and the variational method with a large basis of carefully constructed operators, we extract and reliably identify the continuum spin of an extensive set of excited states, states with exotic quantum numbers (0+-, 1-+, 2+-) and states with high spin. Calculations are performed on two lattice volumes with pion mass approximately 400 MeV and the mass determinations have high statistical precision even for excited states. We discuss the results in light of experimental observations, identify the lightest 'supermultiplet' of hybrid mesons and comment on the phenomenological implications of the spectrum of exotic mesons.
Note:
  • 33 pages, 17 figures/ v2: minor changes to reflect published version
  • hadron spectroscopy
  • charmonium: excited state
  • quantum number
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • lattice
  • spin: high
  • dispersion relation
  • two-point function
  • operator
  • correlation function