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Beyond the Adiabatic Approximation: the impact of thresholds on the hadronic spectrum

Nuclear Theory 2014-11-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In the adiabatic approximation, most of the effects of quark-antiquark loops on spectroscopy can be absorbed into a static interquark potential. I develop a formalism which can be used to treat the residual nonadiabatic effects associated with the presence of nearby hadronic thresholds for heavy quarks. I then define a potential which includes additional high energy corrections to the adiabatic limit which would be present for finite quark masses. This "improved" potential allows a systematic low energy expansion of the impact of thresholds on hadronic spectra.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9901032,
  title  = {Beyond the Adiabatic Approximation: the impact of thresholds on the hadronic spectrum},
  author = {Nathan Isgur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9901032},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

16 pages, a more rapidly converging "improved potential" is defined