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Spin-orbit splittings in heavy-light mesons and Dirac equation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-30 v1

Abstract

The spin-orbit splitting in heavy-light mesons is seen to be suppressed experimentally. It is shown that it can be understood qualitatively in the frame work of Dirac theory. An alternative derivation of a relativistic dynamical symmetry for the Dirac Hamiltonian, which suppresses spin orbit splitting, is also given. However it is shown that such a symmetry is not needed since the spin-orbit splitting in Dirac theory with Coulomb like potential (as is the case for the one gluon exchange potential in pQCD) is small anyway.

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@article{arxiv.1110.1451,
  title  = {Spin-orbit splittings in heavy-light mesons and Dirac equation},
  author = {Riazuddin and Sidra Shafiq},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.1451},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages, 1 fig