The stability of the spectator, Dirac, and Salpeter equations for mesons
Nuclear Theory
2014-11-18 v1
Abstract
Mesons are made of quark-antiquark pairs held together by the strong force. The one channel spectator, Dirac, and Salpeter equations can each be used to model this pairing. We look at cases where the relativistic kernel of these equations corresponds to a time-like vector exchange, a scalar exchange, or a linear combination of the two. Since the model used in this paper describes mesons which cannot decay physically, the equations must describe stable states. We find that this requirement is not always satisfied, and give a complete discussion of the conditions under which the various equations give unphysical, unstable solutions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9808041,
title = {The stability of the spectator, Dirac, and Salpeter equations for mesons},
author = {Michael Uzzo and Franz Gross},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9808041},
year = {2014}
}