Published August 1996 | Version v1
Journal article

Possible retardation effects of quark confinement on the meson spectrum

  • 1. Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of (China)
  • 2. Center of Theoretical Physics, CCAST (World Laboratory), Beijing 100080, People's Republic of (China)

Description

The reduced Bethe-Salpeter equation with scalar confinement and vector gluon exchange is applied to quark-antiquark bound states. The so-called intrinsic flaw of the Salpeter equation with static scalar confinement is investigated. The notorious problem of narrow level spacings is found to be remedied by taking into consideration the retardation effect of scalar confinement. A good fit for the mass spectrum of both heavy and light quarkonium states is then obtained. copyright 1996 The American Physical Society

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
54
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 2273-2278.
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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