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Heavy quark potential from QCD-related effective coupling

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-11-15 v3 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We implement our past investigations in the quark-antiquark interaction through a non-perturbative running coupling defined in terms of a gluon mass function, similar to that used in some Schwinger-Dyson approaches. This coupling leads to a quark-antiquark potential, which satisfies not only asymptotic freedom but also describes linear confinement correctly. From this potential, we calculate the bottomonium and charmonium spectra below the first open flavor meson-meson thresholds and show that for a small range of values of the free parameter determining the gluon mass function an excellent agreement with data is attained.

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@article{arxiv.1509.01382,
  title  = {Heavy quark potential from QCD-related effective coupling},
  author = {Cesar Ayala and Pedro Gonzalez and Vicente Vento},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.01382},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

13 pages, 4 figures; v3: version accepted for publication in Journal of Physics G

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