Note on description of excited hadrons with fixed angular momentum

2009/04/06 by S. S. Afonin, Afonin, S. S.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0904.0737

3 pages, 1 figure

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Abstract

In this Note, we make comments on the recent criticism of the description of highly excited hadrons in terms of fixed angular momentum L and quantify the relation M²∼ L+n+S/2 (n is the radial quantum number and S is the total quark spin) for masses of light mesons.

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