Abstract
The lowest order retardation corrections to the hyperfine separations are evaluated for some charmonium and bottomonium states under the usual assumption of a purely scalar Bethe-Salpeter confinement kernel. The form of the kernel and the parameters involved are the same used in a previous paper devoted to the evaluation of the leading spin-independent retardation corrections. Only the 1S and 2S states are considered. The corrections turn out to be about -30 MeV for the 1S separation and a few MeV for the 2S one.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 213-218 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Physics Letters B |
| Volume | 296 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
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| State | Published - 10 Dec 1992 |
| Externally published | Yes |