A formalism for studying heavy quarks in terms of model Dyson-Schwinger equations is developed. The formalism is the natural extension of a technique which has proved successful in a number of studies of light hadron physics. The dressed heavy quark propagator, calculated to leading order in the inverse quark mass, is incorporated in a treatment of mesons consisting of a heavy quark and light antiquark via the ladder approximation Bethe-Salpeter equation. In the limit of infinite heavy quark mass the model is found to respect the spectrum degeneracies present in heavy quark effective theory. An exploratory numerical analysis of a simple form of the model is carried out to assess its viability for studying D and B mesons.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Research Division:	Physical Sciences
Research Group:	Other Physical Sciences
Research Field:	Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Objective Division:	Expanding Knowledge
Objective Group:	Expanding Knowledge
Objective Field:	Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences
Author:	Liu, DS (Dr Dongsheng Liu)
ID Code:	10172
Year Published:	1997
Web of Science® Times Cited:	24
Deposited By:	Physics
Deposited On:	1997-08-01
Last Modified:	2011-08-11
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