The Radial Excited Heavy Mesons

Abstract

In this paper, the first radial excited heavy pseudoscalar and vector mesons ($\eta_c(2S)$, $\psi(2S)$, $B_c(2S)$, $B^*_c(2S)$, $\eta_b(2S)$, $\varUpsilon(2S)$) are studied in the Dyson-Schwinger equation and Bethe-Salpeter equation approach. It is showed that the effective interactions of the radial excited states are harder than that of the ground states. With the interaction well determined by fitting the masses and leptonic decay constants of $\psi(2S)$ and $\varUpsilon(2S)$, the first radial excited heavy mesons could be quantitatively described in the rainbow ladder approximation. The masses and leptonic decay constants of $\eta_c(2S)$, $B_c(2S)$, $B^*_c(2S)$ and $\eta_b(2S)$ are predicted.