Constructive evidence for flavor independence of the quark-antiquark potential

Journal Article · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1980 · Phys. Rev., D; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.21.234· OSTI ID:5729022

Quigg, C; Thacker, H B; Rosner, J L

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 UPSILON and UPSILON' and found to be in substantial agreement with that constructed from psi and psi' if the UPSILON is composed of a charge -1/3 quark and the corresponding antiquark. This agreement may be interpreted as evidence for flavor independence of the quark-antiquark potential. Predictions for a hypothetical zeta family of higher-lying vector mesons also are noted.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510
• OSTI ID: 5729022
• Journal Information: Phys. Rev., D; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev., D; (United States) Vol. 21:1; ISSN PRVDA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
BASIC INTERACTIONS
BINDING ENERGY
BOSONS
CHARMONIUM
COMPOSITE MODELS
DECAY
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
EIGENFUNCTIONS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ENERGY
EQUATIONS
FIELD THEORIES
FLAVOR MODEL
FUNCTIONS
HADRONS
INTERACTIONS
INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEM
LEPTONIC DECAY
MASS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MESON RESONANCES
MESONS
PARTICLE DECAY
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE MODELS
PARTICLE PROPERTIES
PARTICLE WIDTHS
POTENTIALS
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
QUARK MODEL
QUARK-ANTIQUARK INTERACTIONS
RESONANCE PARTICLES
SCHROEDINGER EQUATION
UPSILON RESONANCES
VECTOR MESONS
WAVE EQUATIONS
WEAK INTERACTIONS
WEAK PARTICLE DECAY