TY - JOUR
T1 - Quarkonium spectroscopy and perturbative QCD
T2 - A new perspective
AU - Brambilla, N.
AU - Sumino, Y.
AU - Vairo, A.
PY - 2001/8/2
Y1 - 2001/8/2
N2 - We study the energy spectrum of bottomonium in perturbative QCD, taking αs(MZ) = 0.1181 ± 0.0020 as input and fixing mbMS (mbMS on the γ(1S) mass. Contrary to wide beliefs, perturbative QCD reproduces reasonably well the gross structure of the spectrum as long as the coupling constant remains smaller than one. We perform a detailed analysis and discuss the size of nonperturbative effects. A new qualitative picture on the structure of the bottomonium spectrum is provided. The lowest-lying cc̄ and bc̄ states are also examined.
AB - We study the energy spectrum of bottomonium in perturbative QCD, taking αs(MZ) = 0.1181 ± 0.0020 as input and fixing mbMS (mbMS on the γ(1S) mass. Contrary to wide beliefs, perturbative QCD reproduces reasonably well the gross structure of the spectrum as long as the coupling constant remains smaller than one. We perform a detailed analysis and discuss the size of nonperturbative effects. A new qualitative picture on the structure of the bottomonium spectrum is provided. The lowest-lying cc̄ and bc̄ states are also examined.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00611-6
DO - 10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00611-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0035797635
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 513
SP - 381
EP - 390
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
IS - 3-4
ER -