Charmed meson spectroscopy on the lattice

Abstract

We present a calculation of the spectrum of low-lying D and D_s mesons calculated on 2+1 flavor configurations with Clover-Wilson quarks generated by the PACS-CS collaboration. S- and P-wave states are explored for pion masses down to 156MeV, including some excited states. As a benchmark, a calculation of the low-lying charmonium spectrum is performed. While the charmonium results agree favorably with experiment, noticeable differences remain for charmed mesons in channels where resonances close to multi-particle thresholds exist.