e Martin's b er of no des of um is the n eg. r n ber um tum n 1 . 1 b er 28, 1994, at a symp osium in honor of Andr een 0 and w Provided byCERNDocumentServer + 1, where the radial quan CORE r n HEP-PH-9501291y els b e function b et v a ted at CERN on Septem t. This article is dedicated to the memory of M. A. Baqi B e lab el lev W Presen 2 1 the radial w retiremen Metadata, citationandsimilarpapersatcore.ac.uk ear els in ery of tial [7] v uary 1995 EFI-95-02 1 state. What els are nearly y theory and Jan ery of the up- S w p oten v hep-ph/9501291 ed this question of er-la ere mapp ed out, this w y in 1975. The result w the 2 y quarks, and their eg ask ersit h as those in p ositronium. as predicted b p ositronium lev tly b elo , states w P TICLE PHYSICS ago, IL 60637 spacing app eared close to that in artment of Physics AR and 1 osner S
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charmonium. Chris Quigg and I asked what kind of p otential would give a level
spacing indep endent of mass [9]. The result, a p otential V (r ) ln r whose prop-
erties had b een investigated even b efore the discovery of the upsilons [10], was
surprisingly simple, and led us to numerous related investigations of general prop-
erties of p otential mo dels [11 , 12 ] and our own attempts at p ower-law ts [13].
It also stimulated work in the inverse scattering problem [14] as an outgrowth of
attempts to construct the interquark p otential directly from data.
These parallel e orts have b een marked by a go o d deal of corresp ondence b e-
tween the resp ective groups. Wehave greatly enjoyed hearing ab out each other's
results. It now app ears that the rst actual collab orative pap er involving b oth
our groups [15 ] will emerge as a result of this Symp osium. For this, and for the
opp ortunity to honor Andre, I am very grateful.
We b egin in Section I I by reviewing quarkonium sp ectra and their regularities.
We next discuss the predictions of p ower-law p otentials for level spacings in Sec. I I I
and for dip ole matrix elements in Sec. IV. Some inverse scattering results and the
key role of information on the wave function at the origin are mentioned in Sec. V.
We discuss hadrons with one charmed quark in Sec. VI, and relate their prop erties
to those of hadrons containing a single b quark using heavy quark symmetryin
Sec. VI I. An overview of the prop erties of hadrons with b eauty o ccupies Sec. VI I I.
These hadrons (particularly the mesons) are a prime lab oratory for the study of
the Cabibb o-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix (Sec. IX) and of CP violation
(Sec. X). We note some issues for further study and conclude in Sec. XI.
I I. QUARKONIUM SPECTRA AND THEIR REGULARITIES
Of all the known quarks, the charmed quark c and the b eauty quark b o er
the b est opp ortunity for the study of b ound states and for insights into the strong
interactions using simple metho ds. Since the scale at which the interactions of
quantum chromo dynamics (QCD) b ecome strong is several hundred MeV, the
masses of the u, d, and s quarks are overwhelmed in b ound states by QCD e ects.
The top quark is so heavy that it decays to W + b b efore forming b ound states.
Leptons, of course, b eing colorless, do not participate in this richphysics at all. In
this Section we give a brief overview of levels containing only c and b quarks.
A. Charmonium
The charmonium sp ectrum is shown in Fig. 1. Masses of observed levels are
based on the averages in Ref. [16]. The prediction of the (2S ) is based on Ref. [17].
c
Arrows are lab eled by particles emitted in transitions. States ab ove the horizontal
dashed line can decay to pairs of charmed mesons (D D ) and are consequently
broader than those b elow the line, which decay b oth electromagnetically and with
appreciable branching ratios to non-charmed hadrons (not shown).
+
For manyyears, the ma jor source of charmonium was the reaction e e !
! (cc), which can pro duce only states with spin J = 1, parity P = , and
2
Figure 1: Charmonium (cc) sp ectrum. Observed and predicted levels are denoted
by solid and dashed horizontal lines, resp ectively.
3 3
charge-conjugation eigenvalue C = , namely the S and D levels. Other levels
1 1
PC
were reached by electric or magnetic dip ole transitions from the J =1 states,
as indicated by the arrows lab eled by in the gure. More recently, starting with
an exp eriment in the CERN ISR [18] and continuing with studies in the Fermilab
antiproton accumulator ring [19], it has b een p ossible to p erformpp collisions with
carefully controlled energy, forming charmonium states in the direct channel. The
observation of the h (1P ) level has b een one b ene t of these studies, which are
c
exp ected to continue.
B. Upsilons
We show(bb) levels in Fig. 2. The observed levels are as quoted in Ref. [16],
PC +
while the J =0 levels are shown with masses predicted on the basis of
PC +
Ref. [17]. The J =1 (\h ") levels are taken to have the spin-weighted average
b
masses of the corresp onding levels. Since avor threshold lies higher than for
b
charmonium, there are two sets of narrow P-wave levels, and consequently a rich 3
Figure 2: Sp ectrum of bb states. Observed and predicted levels are denoted by solid
and dashed horizontal lines, resp ectively. In addition to the transitions lab eled
by arrows, numerous electric dip ole transitions and decays of states b elow B B
threshold to hadrons containing light quarks have b een seen.
set of electric dip ole transitions b etween the and states, e.g., 3S ! 2P !
b
2S ! 1P ! 1S ,3S !1P (very weak), and 2P ! 1S . The systematics of these
transitions has b een a sub ject of recentinterest to Andre, our colleagues, and me
[20, 21 ], which will b e describ ed in Sec. IV.
C. Quarkonium and QCD
As anticipated [22], quarkonium has proved a remarkable lab oratory for the
study of quantum chromo dynamics.
1. Forces between a quark and an antiquark are b est visualized with the help
of Gauss' Law. At short distances, the interquark p otential is describ ed byan
e ective p otential V (r )= (4=3) (r )=r , where the 4/3 is a color factor and the
s
strong ne structure constant decreases as 1= ln r at short distances as a result
s
of the asymptotic freedom of the strong interactions [23]. Lines of force b ehave 4
approximately as they do for a Coulomb p otential. They spread out in a typical
dip ole pattern; one cannot tell the scale of the interaction by lo oking at them.
At long distances, on the other hand, the chromo electric lines of force bunchup
into a ux tub e of approximately constant area, much as magnetic ux in a typ e-
I I sup erconductor forms tub es. The force b etween a quark and antiquark at long
distances is then indep endent of distance [24], so the p otential V = kr rises linearly
2
with distance. Exp erimentally k is ab out 0.18 GeV .
2. Decays of quarkonium states are a source of information ab out the strength
+
of the strong coupling constant. For example, the ratio of the three-gluon and
3 2
decay rates of the is prop ortional to = , where is the electromagnetic ne-
s
structure constant, and leads [25] to a value of (M )= 0:108 0:010 consistent
s Z
with many other determinations. (It has b ecome conventional to quote at M
s Z
even though the decay of the prob es at m ' 5 GeV.)
s b
3. Lattice QCD calculations [26 ] deduce the value of from the observed
s
1P 1S level spacing in the system (Fig. 2), leading to (M )=0:110 0:006.
s Z
Both this value and that determined from decays are consistent with the world
average [27] (M )=0:117 0:005.
s Z
I I I. LEVEL SPACINGS IN POWER-LAW POTENTIALS