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Sum-rule for large-$N_c$ QCD and application to heavy quarkonia

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-11 v2

Abstract

We introduce a new sum-rule for large-NcN_c QCD which relates the density of heavy quarkonium states, the state-averaged square of the wavefunction at the origin, and the heavy quark current-current correlator. Focusing on the region of energy just above perturbative threshold, we calculate the correlator by incorporating arbitrarily high orders in the QCD coupling αs\alpha_s. We use the sum-rule to determine the bottomonium potential using experimentally measured s-wave leptonic widths and compare the result with the potential obtained by direct calculation from the measured s-wave spectrum. We discuss the utility of the sum-rule method for accurate determination of the confining potential.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9710324,
  title  = {Sum-rule for large-$N_c$ QCD and application to heavy quarkonia},
  author = {Dean Lee and Howard Georgi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9710324},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, Latex, Pictex --- revised version corrects minor typos in formulas and includes minor changes in exposition