How Heavy are the Quarks?

7 April 1975

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 34 (14), 917-919
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.34.917

Abstract

We consider a simple model of mesons as Coulombic bound states of quark-antiquark pairs confined in a box. A fit to the meson spectra and decay rates suggests that

m_{u} = m_{d} \approx 0.3

GeV,

m_{s} \approx 0.4

GeV, and

m_{c} \approx 1.4

GeV. We also predict new meson systematics and metastable charmed baryons.

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