Properties of the B_{C} System
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I summarize a comprehensive account of the energies, splittings and electromagnetic decays of the low-lying states of the bottom charmed meson system. Richardson's potential is used to include running coupling constant effects in the central potential, and the full radiative one-loop expressions derived by Pantaleone, Tye and Ng are used for the spin-dependent potentials. Our result for the ground state energy is 6286 +15 -6 MeV. The ground state lifetime is found to be 0.36 + 0.05 - 0.05 ps. Both of these numbers are consistent with the measured values recently announced by the CDF collaboration at Fermilab.
Prepared for the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Newport News, Virginia, June 1998. 4 pages with 2 postscript figures. requires epsfig and worldsci.sty
Prepared for the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Newport News, Virginia, June 1998. 4 pages with 2 postscript figures. requires epsfig and worldsci.sty