https://doi.org/10.1140/epjcd/s2003-03-510-9
PS05 Hadronic Physics
Chiral symmetry and hyperfine
splittings
1
Depto. de Física Teórica I, Univ. Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
2
Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC 27695-8202, USA
3
Department of Physics and Nuclear Theory Center, Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405-4202, USA
4
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 and Jefferson Lab, 12000 Jefferson Ave, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
Received:
31
October
2003
Accepted:
14
November
2003
Published online:
3
December
2003
We review theoretical calculations for the pseudoscalar-vector meson hyperfine splitting with no open flavor and also report a many body field theoretical effort to assess the impact of chiral symmetry in the choice of effective potentials for relativistic quark models. Our calculations predict the missing η b meson to have mass near 9400 MeV.
PACS: 11.30.Rd – 12.38.Lg – 12.39.Ki – 12.40Yx
© Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2004