Sign of the color-hyperfine splitting in charmonium P states as a test of perturbative QCD

Journal Article · Fri May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1992 · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.45.3268· OSTI ID:7035590

Lichtenberg, D B ^[1]; Predazzi, E; Roncaglia, R ^[2]

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1. Physics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 (United States)
2. Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Universita di Torino, Torino (Italy) Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Torino, I-10125 Torino (Italy)

The sign of the difference in energy between the center of gravity of the {sup 3}{ital P} levels and the {sup 1}{ital P} level in heavy quarkonium is a test of the {alpha}{sub {ital s}}{sup 2} terms in perturbative QCD with a fixed coupling constant. Whereas this energy difference is zero in the Fermi-Breit approximation and greater than zero in a generalized Fermi-Breit approximation with asymptotically free potentials, the energy difference is negative in perturbative QCD calculations to one-loop order with a fixed {alpha}{sub {ital s}}. For potentials which reasonably agree with the spin-averaged data, the absolute magnitude of the splitting is calculated to be about 4 MeV or less in charmonium and 2 MeV or less in bottomonium. Since the energy of the {sup 3}{ital P} center of gravity in charmonium is known, a measurement of the energy of the {sup 1}{ital P} level is needed to discriminate between these different schemes. Although the {sup 1}{ital P} levels in bottomonium will probably be harder to measure, we also present results for bottomonium.

• OSTI ID: 7035590
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States) Vol. 45:9; ISSN PRVDA; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ANGULAR MOMENTUM
BOSONS
BOTTOMONIUM
CHARMONIUM
COLOR MODEL
COMPOSITE MODELS
COULOMB FIELD
COUPLING CONSTANTS
ELECTRIC FIELDS
ELECTRODYNAMICS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ENERGY LEVELS
FERMIONS
FIELD THEORIES
HADRONS
HYPERFINE STRUCTURE
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MESONS
P STATES
PARTICLE MODELS
PARTICLE PROPERTIES
PERTURBATION THEORY
POSTULATED PARTICLES
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
QUARK MODEL
QUARKONIUM
QUARKS
SPIN
TESTING