Pseudoscalar and vector toponia in a Dyson--Schwinger--Bethe--Salpeter framework

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Hauptverfasser: Zhang, H. -R., Cui, Z. -F., Segovia, J.
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author Zhang, H. -R.
Cui, Z. -F.
Segovia, J.
author_facet Zhang, H. -R.
Cui, Z. -F.
Segovia, J.
contents We study the pseudoscalar ($J^{PC}=0^{-+}$) and vector ($1^{--}$) top--antitop (toponium) systems within the rainbow--ladder truncation of the Dyson--Schwinger and Bethe--Salpeter equations, employing the Qin--Chang effective interaction. After validating the framework in the charmonium and bottomonium sectors, we extend it consistently to the top sector, incorporating renormalisation-group running of the current quark mass and a careful treatment of the number of active flavours. We compute masses and leptonic decay constants for $N_f=5$ and $6$, then analyse their dependence on the renormalisation scale in the range $μ=400-800\,\text{GeV}$. The resulting toponium masses lie near $344-346\,\text{GeV}$ with hyperfine splittings below $0.14-0.17\,\text{GeV}$, while the decay constants are large, $6-7\,\text{GeV}$, and exhibit the expected heavy-quark scaling behaviour. We find only mild sensitivity to the renormalisation point and a systematic reduction of binding when increasing $N_f$. Although the physical top quark decays weakly before hadronisation, our results demonstrate that, within a Poincaré-covariant nonperturbative framework, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) generates tightly correlated pseudoscalar and vector toponium systems in that extreme heavy-quark limit.
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spellingShingle Pseudoscalar and vector toponia in a Dyson--Schwinger--Bethe--Salpeter framework
Zhang, H. -R.
Cui, Z. -F.
Segovia, J.
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
We study the pseudoscalar ($J^{PC}=0^{-+}$) and vector ($1^{--}$) top--antitop (toponium) systems within the rainbow--ladder truncation of the Dyson--Schwinger and Bethe--Salpeter equations, employing the Qin--Chang effective interaction. After validating the framework in the charmonium and bottomonium sectors, we extend it consistently to the top sector, incorporating renormalisation-group running of the current quark mass and a careful treatment of the number of active flavours. We compute masses and leptonic decay constants for $N_f=5$ and $6$, then analyse their dependence on the renormalisation scale in the range $μ=400-800\,\text{GeV}$. The resulting toponium masses lie near $344-346\,\text{GeV}$ with hyperfine splittings below $0.14-0.17\,\text{GeV}$, while the decay constants are large, $6-7\,\text{GeV}$, and exhibit the expected heavy-quark scaling behaviour. We find only mild sensitivity to the renormalisation point and a systematic reduction of binding when increasing $N_f$. Although the physical top quark decays weakly before hadronisation, our results demonstrate that, within a Poincaré-covariant nonperturbative framework, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) generates tightly correlated pseudoscalar and vector toponium systems in that extreme heavy-quark limit.
title Pseudoscalar and vector toponia in a Dyson--Schwinger--Bethe--Salpeter framework
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17503