Possible effects of color screening and large string tension in heavy quarkonium spectra

A review of the open charm and open bottom systems

Since the discovery of the first charmed meson in 1976, many open-charm and open-bottom hadrons were observed. In 2003 two narrow charm-strange states [Formula: see text] and D _s1(2460) were discovered by the BaBar and CLEO Collaborations, respectively. After that, more excited heavy hadrons were reported. In this work, we review the experimental and theoretical progress in this field.

Is the spectrum of highly excited mesons purely coulombian?

We show that a static central potential may provide a precise description of highly excited light unflavored mesons. Because of string breaking, this potential becomes of chromoelectric type at sufficiently large quark-antiquark distances giving rise to a Coulombian spectrum. The same conclusion can be inferred for any other meson sector through a straightforward extension of our analysis.