Effects of Negative Energy Components in the Constituent Quark Model

Abstract

Relativistic covariance requires that in the constituent quark model for mesons the positive energy states as well as the negative energy states are included. Using relativistic quasi-potential equations the contribution of the negative energy states is studied for the light and charmonium mesons. It is found that these states change the meson mass spectrum significantly but leave its global structure untouched.

Comments: 14 pages revtex 3.0, 4 figures uudecoded attached in postscript format, THU-93/12