Mass relations in heavy hadrons from Jensen-like inequalities
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| author | Zhang, Wen-Xuan Liu, Wen-Nian Jia, Duojie |
| author_facet | Zhang, Wen-Xuan Liu, Wen-Nian Jia, Duojie |
| contents | We demonstrate that mass inequalities for hadrons with one or more heavy quarks arise primarily from the concavity of binding energies in the quark model, reflecting short-range Coulombic interactions and long-range confinement. Empirical two-body bindings $B_{i\bar{j}}$ are extracted from spin-averaged meson masses, ensuring model independence and direct use of experimental data. Fitting these as functions of reduced mass $μ_{ij}$ reveals a critical confinement scale of 1.34~fm where bindings turn positive. The concave $B(1/μ)$ justifies Jensen-like inequalities under flavor permutation, reproducing relations like $m_{x\bar{y}} > \frac{1}{2}(m_{x\bar{x}} + m_{y\bar{y}})$ and baryon analogs, including $m_{xyz} > \frac{1}{3}(m_{xxx} + m_{yyy} + m_{zzz})$. Hadron mass decomposition validates $ΔM_{\textrm{EXP}} \approx ΔB + ΔC$ with $σ\sim 2.07$~MeV for mesons and baryons. Promoting inequalities to equalities, we predict masses for unobserved heavy baryons (e.g., $M(Ω_{b}^{\ast})=6076.6\,$MeV, $M(Ξ_{cc}^{\ast})=3703.6\,$MeV and $M(Ω_{cc}^{\ast})=3802.4\,$MeV) and identify favored quark-exchange scattering channels. |
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| spellingShingle | Mass relations in heavy hadrons from Jensen-like inequalities Zhang, Wen-Xuan Liu, Wen-Nian Jia, Duojie High Energy Physics - Phenomenology We demonstrate that mass inequalities for hadrons with one or more heavy quarks arise primarily from the concavity of binding energies in the quark model, reflecting short-range Coulombic interactions and long-range confinement. Empirical two-body bindings $B_{i\bar{j}}$ are extracted from spin-averaged meson masses, ensuring model independence and direct use of experimental data. Fitting these as functions of reduced mass $μ_{ij}$ reveals a critical confinement scale of 1.34~fm where bindings turn positive. The concave $B(1/μ)$ justifies Jensen-like inequalities under flavor permutation, reproducing relations like $m_{x\bar{y}} > \frac{1}{2}(m_{x\bar{x}} + m_{y\bar{y}})$ and baryon analogs, including $m_{xyz} > \frac{1}{3}(m_{xxx} + m_{yyy} + m_{zzz})$. Hadron mass decomposition validates $ΔM_{\textrm{EXP}} \approx ΔB + ΔC$ with $σ\sim 2.07$~MeV for mesons and baryons. Promoting inequalities to equalities, we predict masses for unobserved heavy baryons (e.g., $M(Ω_{b}^{\ast})=6076.6\,$MeV, $M(Ξ_{cc}^{\ast})=3703.6\,$MeV and $M(Ω_{cc}^{\ast})=3802.4\,$MeV) and identify favored quark-exchange scattering channels. |
| title | Mass relations in heavy hadrons from Jensen-like inequalities |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00962 |