Binding Energies in Nonrelativistic Field Theories

Abstract

Relativistic corrections communicate the binding energy of a bound state to its kinetic mass. This mechanism is reviewed and used to explain anomalous results of Collins, Edwards, Heller, and Sloan (hep-lat/9512026), which compared rest and kinetic masses of heavy-light mesons and quarkonia.

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, poster presented at LATTICE96(heavy quarks)