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Complete analytical solution to the Cornell potential and heavy quarkonium structure

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-06-03 v2

Abstract

We use the recently proposed supersymmetric expansion algorithm (SEA) to obtain a complete analytical solution to the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with the Cornell potential. We find that the energy levels Enl(λ)E_{nl}(\lambda) depend on n2n^{2} and L2=l(l+1)L^{2}=l(l+1). For a given nn, the energy {\emph {decreases}} with ll and the radial probabilities have the Coulomb shape but their peaks are shifted toward smaller radius. We study the heavy quarkonium structure on the light of these results, showing that the measured bˉb\bar{b}b and cˉc\bar{c}c meson masses follow the inverted spectrum pattern predicted by the Cornell potential. Details of the structure of heavy quarkonium like the mean inverse radius and mean squared velocity for the different quarkonium configurations can be obtained from our solution. These details point to significant relativistic corrections for all the configurations of real heavy quarkonium. We calculate relativistic corrections using perturbation theory finding an expansion in αs2\alpha^{2}_{s} for the heavy quarkonium masses. The mass hierarchies in the fine splittings can be qualitatively understood from this expansion. The quantitative analysis of the Bohr-like levels and of the fine splittings in the l=0l=0 sector allow us to make well defined predictions for the masses of some of the missing heavy quarkonium states, to identify the ψ(4040)\psi(4040) as the 33S13^{3}S_{1} cˉc\bar{c}c state and the ψ(3842)\psi(3842), ψ(3823)\psi(3823) and ψ(3770)\psi(3770) as the 33D33^{3}D_{3}, 33D23^{3}D_{2} and 33D13^{3}D_{1} cˉc\bar{c}c states respectively.

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@article{arxiv.2501.10786,
  title  = {Complete analytical solution to the Cornell potential and heavy quarkonium structure},
  author = {M. Napsuciale and S. Rodríguez and A. E. Villanueva-Gutiérrez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.10786},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

25 pages, 6 figures

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