Meson Mass Splittings in the Nonrelativistic Model

Abstract

Mass splittings between isodoublet meson pairs and between $0^{-}$ and $1^{-}$ mesons of the same valence quark content are computed in a detailed nonrelativistic model. The field theoretic expressions for such splittings are shown to reduce to kinematic and Breit-Fermi terms in the nonrelativistic limit. Algebraic results thus obtained are applied to the specific case of the linear-plus-Coulomb potential, with resultant numbers compared to experiment.

Comments: 29 pages with 2 tables and 4 figures, LBL-32872 and UCB-PTH-92/33