Abstract
The masses and leptonic widths of vector mesons may be used to construct quark-antiquark potentials by means of an inverse-scattering method. This technique has been applied to the charmonium system. A corresponding potential has been constructed from and and found to be in substantial agreement with that constructed from and if the is composed of a charge quark and the corresponding antiquark. This agreement may be interpreted as evidence for flavor independence of the quark-antiquark potential. Predictions for a hypothetical family of higher-lying vector mesons also are noted.
- Received 27 July 1979
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.21.234
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