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Rigourous QCD Evaluation of Spectrum and Other Properties of Heavy Quarkonium Systems; II Bottomium with n=2, l=0,1

S. Titard, F. J. Yndurain

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9403400

Abstract

We calculate the Lamb, fine and hyperfine shifts in b b with n=2, l=0,1. Radiative corrections as well as leading nonperturbative corrections (known to be due to the gluon condensate) are taken into account. The calculation is parameter-free, as we take Λ, αs G2 from independent sources. Agreement with experiment is found at the expected level 30\%. Particularly interesting is a prediction for the hyperfine splitting, M average(23P)-M(21P1) = 1.7 0.9\, MeV, opposite in sign to the c c one (≈ -0.9\, MeV), and where the nonzero value of αs G2 plays a leading role.

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