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Quarkonia in Hamiltonian Light-Front QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A constituent parton picture of hadrons with logarithmic confinement naturally arises in weak coupling light-front QCD. Confinement provides a mass gap that allows the constituent picture to emerge. The effective renormalized Hamiltonian is computed to O(g2){\cal O}(g^2), and used to study charmonium and bottomonium. Radial and angular excitations can be used to fix the coupling α\alpha, the quark mass MM, and the cutoff Λ\Lambda. The resultant hyperfine structure is very close to experiment.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9607280,
  title  = {Quarkonia in Hamiltonian Light-Front QCD},
  author = {Martina M. Brisudova and Robert J. Perry and Kenneth G. Wilson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9607280},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages, 1 latex figure included in the text. Published version (much more reader-friendly); corrected error in self-energy

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