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Coulomb Gauge QCD and the Excited Hadron Spectrum

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-12-30 v1

Abstract

We discuss progress in understanding the light and heavy quark excited hadron spectrum from Coulomb gauge QCD. For light quark systems we highlight the insensitivity to spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking, which predicts Wigner parity-degeneracy in the highly excited hadron spectrum and allows the quark mass momentum dependence to be experimentally probed. For heavy quark meson decays we invoke the Franck-Condon principle, a consequence of small velocity changes for heavy quarks, to extract qualitative, but model independent, structure insight from the momentum distribution of the decay products.

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@article{arxiv.1012.5704,
  title  = {Coulomb Gauge QCD and the Excited Hadron Spectrum},
  author = {Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada and Stephen R. Cotanch and Tim van Cauteren and Juan M. Torres Rincon and Pedro Bicudo and Marco Cardoso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.5704},
  year   = {2010}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures, delivered at NAPP2010 (3d International Conference on Nuclear and Particle Physics with CEBAF at Jefferson Lab), Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 2010