Direct experimental test of scalar confinement
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
The concept of Lorentz scalar quark confinement has a long history and is still widely used despite its well-known theoretical faults. We point out here that the predictions of scalar confinement also conflict directly with experiment. We investigate the dependence of heavy-light meson mass differences on the mass of the light quark. In particular, we examine the strange and non-strange D mesons. We find that the predictions of scalar confinement are in considerable conflict with measured values.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0404169,
title = {Direct experimental test of scalar confinement},
author = {Theodore J. Allen and M. G. Olsson and Jeffrey R. Schmidt and Sinisa Veseli and Yu Yuan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0404169},
year = {2009}
}
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