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Can the hyperfine mass splitting formula in heavy quarkonia be applied to the $B_c$ system?

Nuclear Theory 2021-02-02 v2

Abstract

The mass relation M0++3M1++5M2+=9M1+{M_{0^{+}}+3M_{1^{+\prime}}+5M_{2^{+}}= 9M_{1^{+}}} miraculously holds for the PP-wave charmonium (ccˉ)(c\bar{c}) and bottomonium (bbˉ)(b\bar{b}) systems with soaring precision. The origin of such relation can be addressed from Quark Models, and have been confirmed experimentally in a limited number of cases. In this connection, we propose M0++5M2+=3(M1++M1+)M_{0^{+}}+5M_{2^{+}}=3(M_{1^{+\prime}}+M_{1^{+}}) as an extension to the PP-wave BcB_{c} case. In order to test its applicability, we employ a variety of Quark Model predictions for the BcB_c mass spectrum. Our numerical analysis confirms such formula is accurate up to very small deviations.

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@article{arxiv.1912.08339,
  title  = {Can the hyperfine mass splitting formula in heavy quarkonia be applied to the $B_c$ system?},
  author = {Lei Chang and Muyang Chen and Xue-qian Li and Yu-xin Liu and Khépani Raya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.08339},
  year   = {2021}
}

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