Predicting charmonium and bottomonium spectra with a quark harmonic oscillator.
We present a simple application of the three-dimensional harmonic oscillator which should provide a very nice particle physics example to be presented in introductory undergraduate quantum mechanics course.  The idea is to use the nonrelativistic quark model to calculate the spin-averaged mass levels of the charmonium and bottomonium spectra.
Norbury
J W
JW
Physics Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23508, USA.
Badavi
F F
FF
Townsend
L W
LW
D004601:Elementary Particles; D008651:Mesons; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009686:Nuclear Physics; D011789:Quantum Theory