P- and D-wave spin-orbit splittings in heavy-light mesons

Abstract

This is a summary of a detailed study of heavy-light meson excited state energies. Our lattice measurements include both radial and orbital excitations. Particular attention is paid to the spin-orbit splittings, to see which one of the states (for a given angular momentum L) has the lower energy. In nature the closest equivalent of this heavy-light system is the B_s meson, which allows us to compare our lattice calculations to experimental results (where available) or give a prediction where the excited states, particularly P-wave states, should lie.