Universal light quark mass dependence and heavy-light meson spectroscopy

2003/10/24 by Theodore J. Allen, Todd Coleman, M. G. Olsson +2 · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #B meson #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Meson #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Quark #Spectroscopy #String (physics) #Theoretical physics #Universality (dynamical systems) #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.69.074010

published in Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 69(7) (American Physical Society) · REVTeX4, 6 pages, 9 eps figures

arxiv created 2003/10/24 · openalex publication_date 2004/04/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Clean predictions are presented for all the spin-averaged heavy-light meson spectroscopies. A new symmetry is identified wherein the energy eigenstates have a universal dependence on both the light and heavy quark masses. This universality is used in an efficient analysis of these mesons within the QCD string or flux tube picture. We give unique predictions for all the D, D_s, B, and B_s type mesons in terms of just four measured quantities.

Citations

• Forces in Molecules
• Quantum geometry of bosonic strings
• Reduction of the QCD string to a time component vector potential