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Spin-1 quarkonia in a rotating frame and their spin contents

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-06-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We propose a new way of studying the spin content of a hadron by looking at its response in a rotating frame. By collecting all responses of quarks and gluons in a rotating frame, we describe the spin-rotation coupling of spin-1 quarkonia and thereby reveal their spin contents in a relativistic formalism. We demonstrate that both the perturbative and non-perturbative contributions in the operator product expansion follow a universal formula that identifies the spin-rotation coupling with unit strength. This allows us to recognize the total spin-1 of the vector and axial vector quarkonia in terms of the total angular momentum of quarks and gluons. Specifically, we find the spin contents of J/ψJ/\psi, χc1\chi_{c1}, Υ(1S)\Upsilon(1S), and χb1\chi_{b1} are slightly different from the naive quark model picture. For example, the J/ψJ/\psi is traditionally considered as an S-wave particle, but we find quarks do not carry all of the total spin.

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@article{arxiv.2212.14570,
  title  = {Spin-1 quarkonia in a rotating frame and their spin contents},
  author = {HyungJoo Kim and Sungtae Cho and Su Houng Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.14570},
  year   = {2023}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures