Constructive Evidence for Flavor Independence of the Quark - Antiquark Potential

Jun, 1979
26 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 21 (1980) 234
Report number:
  • PRINT-79-0459 (MINNESOTA),
  • FERMILAB-PUB-79-052-T

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Abstract: (APS)
The masses and leptonic widths of vector mesons may be used to construct quark-antiquark potentials by means of an inverse-scattering method. This technique has been applied to the charmonium system. A corresponding potential has been constructed from ϒ and ϒ′ and found to be in substantial agreement with that constructed from ψ and ψ′ if the ϒ is composed of a charge −13 quark and the corresponding antiquark. This agreement may be interpreted as evidence for flavor independence of the quark-antiquark potential. Predictions for a hypothetical ζ family of higher-lying vector mesons also are noted.
Note:
  • Originally FERMILAB-PUB-79-52-THY
  • QUARK ANTIQUARK: POTENTIAL
  • QUARK ANTIQUARK: BOUND STATE
  • bottom
  • QUARK: FLAVOR
  • VECTOR MESON: MASS
  • MASS: VECTOR MESON
  • INVERSE SCATTERING METHOD
  • CHARMONIUM
  • PSI MESONS: DECAY WIDTH
  • DECAY WIDTH: PSI MESONS