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QM Reminder: Central Potentials
For reasonable systems can write
Ds~0.2 (>>1/137)
F0=900 MeV/fm
(=150,000 Newtons, or 16 tons!)
A wrong interpretation (that may get you through the night): a single
quark, by itself in the universe, has some finite value of energy due to
its rest mass; as soon as the second quark appears in the universe, the
total energy goes up, so that the pair radiates energy until settling into
a bound state above twice the original mass of the first quark
A slightly more correct interpretation: something like the above
happens, except for the fact that a bare quark mass is a
meaningless concept.
Even more correct: the rest mass of the first one is infinite (sorry!)
Wilczeks Nobel Lecture of this year might be a useful thing to read!
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-ph/0502113
Strongonium Levels
Analog to binding energies of hydrogen
For mq=1300 MeV (~1.5 proton masses)
Here: for varying principle quantum numbers n
No fine / hyperfine corrections for l, m
Solve nonrelativistic SE
BUT now binding energies, measured wrt 2mq, are POSITIVE
E1: +488 MeV
E2: +1015 MeV
E3: +1432 MeV
E4: +1794 MeV
Actual values (from heavy quark system)
E1: +497 MeV
E2:+1085 MeV
E3: +1430 MeV
E4: +1560 MeV
By the time we get to last two we will really need relativistic
corrections!