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Spectra of heavy mesons in the Bethe-Salpeter approach

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present a calculation of the spectrum of charmonia, bottomonia and B_c-meson states with `ordinary' and exotic quantum numbers. We discuss the merits and limitations of a rainbow-ladder truncation of Dyson-Schwinger and Bethe-Salpeter equations and explore the effects of different shapes of the effective running coupling on ground and excited states in channels with quantum numbers J <= 3. We furthermore discuss the status of the X(3872) as a potential (excited) quark-antiquark state and give predictions for the masses of charmonia and bottomonia in the tensor channels with J=2,3.

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@article{arxiv.1409.5076,
  title  = {Spectra of heavy mesons in the Bethe-Salpeter approach},
  author = {Christian S. Fischer and Stanislav Kubrak and Richard Williams},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.5076},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages, 8 figures, 1 table. Version to appear in Eur. Phys J. A