Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2010-09-28
PoS LC2010:066,2010
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
4 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the workshop LightCone2010, Valencia, June 14th-18th
Scientific paper
A distinct feature of Coulomb gauge QCD is that it can be formulated in terms of physical, transverse gluons and quarks alone. The state-counting is then transparent, and the gauge is suited for studies of the excited spectrum. Leaving aside exotic spectroscopy, which has been the subject of other publications, in this note I call attention on two recent applications. One is that the running quark mass in the mid-infrared can be probed from excited baryons thanks to parity doubling, a consequence of insensitivity to chiral symmetry breaking. Fast quarks are asymptotically free and behave as massless, so hadrons containing fast quarks decouple from the condensate. Their (power-law) rate of decoupling reflects on the rate of decreasing parity splittings, which can be measured. The second is that, in analogy with the Franck-Condon principle of molecular physics, the velocity distribution of the heavy quarks inside a heavy hadron can be mapped out by the velocity distribution of its open-flavor decay products. This is exemplified by recent data from the Belle collaboration taken at the Upsilon(10860).
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