Quarkonium spectra with magnetically-induced anisotropic confinement

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Hauptverfasser: Arifi, Ahmad Jafar, Suzuki, Kei
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author Arifi, Ahmad Jafar
Suzuki, Kei
author_facet Arifi, Ahmad Jafar
Suzuki, Kei
contents Strong magnetic fields modify the force that confines quarks inside hadrons and make it direction-dependent. Using quark-antiquark potentials obtained from lattice simulations as inputs to a quark potential model, we investigate how the anisotropic confinement affects the mass spectrum of quarkonium. In the strong-field regime, we find downward mass shifts induced by a softening of the confining potential along the field direction. In particular, the mass shifts of radially excited states are more significant than that of the ground state. For the longitudinal spin eigenstates, the excited-state spectrum strongly depends on the magnetic-field strength, in contrast to the spectrum with conventional isotropic confinement, which is insensitive to the field strength. This provides a clean probe of magnetically induced confinement anisotropy that can be confirmed in future lattice simulations.
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spellingShingle Quarkonium spectra with magnetically-induced anisotropic confinement
Arifi, Ahmad Jafar
Suzuki, Kei
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Nuclear Theory
Strong magnetic fields modify the force that confines quarks inside hadrons and make it direction-dependent. Using quark-antiquark potentials obtained from lattice simulations as inputs to a quark potential model, we investigate how the anisotropic confinement affects the mass spectrum of quarkonium. In the strong-field regime, we find downward mass shifts induced by a softening of the confining potential along the field direction. In particular, the mass shifts of radially excited states are more significant than that of the ground state. For the longitudinal spin eigenstates, the excited-state spectrum strongly depends on the magnetic-field strength, in contrast to the spectrum with conventional isotropic confinement, which is insensitive to the field strength. This provides a clean probe of magnetically induced confinement anisotropy that can be confirmed in future lattice simulations.
title Quarkonium spectra with magnetically-induced anisotropic confinement
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12589