Nonrelativistic meson masses from the Curci-Ferrari model

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Main Authors: Alvez, Anaclara, Barrios, Nahuel, Benítez, Florencia, Peláez, Marcela
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author Alvez, Anaclara
Barrios, Nahuel
Benítez, Florencia
Peláez, Marcela
author_facet Alvez, Anaclara
Barrios, Nahuel
Benítez, Florencia
Peláez, Marcela
contents We study the mass spectrum of nonrelativistic mesons composed of charm and bottom quarks within the framework of the Curci-Ferrari model in the Landau gauge, focusing on the influence of the gluon mass on our results. We derive the Hamiltonian from the scattering amplitude of a single massive gluon exchange. By incorporating a confining Cornell potential we solve the Schrödinger equation for the dominant terms of the Hamiltonian, which include the kinetic energy and a Yukawa-type potential. Corrections to the energy are then introduced perturbatively. By studying the parameter space of the model we fit the experimental mass spectrum of charmonium, bottomonium and charm-bottom mesons. From the five parameters of our approach, we allow the gluon mass and the gauge coupling to run with the energy scale according to the ultraviolet one-loop renormalization flows, computed in [1]. Our results show very good agreement with the data, suggesting that a nonvanishing gluon mass provides a better description of the spectrum of heavy mesons than the massless case.
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spellingShingle Nonrelativistic meson masses from the Curci-Ferrari model
Alvez, Anaclara
Barrios, Nahuel
Benítez, Florencia
Peláez, Marcela
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Theory
We study the mass spectrum of nonrelativistic mesons composed of charm and bottom quarks within the framework of the Curci-Ferrari model in the Landau gauge, focusing on the influence of the gluon mass on our results. We derive the Hamiltonian from the scattering amplitude of a single massive gluon exchange. By incorporating a confining Cornell potential we solve the Schrödinger equation for the dominant terms of the Hamiltonian, which include the kinetic energy and a Yukawa-type potential. Corrections to the energy are then introduced perturbatively. By studying the parameter space of the model we fit the experimental mass spectrum of charmonium, bottomonium and charm-bottom mesons. From the five parameters of our approach, we allow the gluon mass and the gauge coupling to run with the energy scale according to the ultraviolet one-loop renormalization flows, computed in [1]. Our results show very good agreement with the data, suggesting that a nonvanishing gluon mass provides a better description of the spectrum of heavy mesons than the massless case.
title Nonrelativistic meson masses from the Curci-Ferrari model
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04365