title: Predicting charmonium and bottomonium spectra with a quark harmonic oscillator.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23508, USA.
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Norbury
authors.forename: F F
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: Badavi
authors.forename: L W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Townsend
mesh_terms: D004601:Elementary Particles; D008651:Mesons; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009686:Nuclear Physics; D011789:Quantum Theory