Heavy meson thresholds in Born-Oppenheimer effective field theory
Jaume Tarrús Castellà
Abstract
We consider heavy meson-antimeson pairs and their coupling to quarkonium in the context of nonrelativistic effective field theories (EFTs) incorporating the adiabatic expansion. We work out all the leading order couplings of quarkonium to heavy meson-antimeson pairs and obtain their contributions to the masses and widths of quarkonia. We match the new potentials terms to nonrelativistic QCD. Using the available lattice data for the coupled system of quarkonium and the lowest lying heavy meson-antimeson pair, we extract the mixing potential and use it to compute numerically the contributions of $D\overline{D}(B\overline{B})$ and ${D}_{s}{\overline{D}}_{s}({B}_{s}{\overline{B}}_{s})$ to the masses and widths of the charmonium (bottomonium) states for $l=0$, 1, 2 and up to $n=6$ covering the states in threshold region. When a quarkonium state and a heavy meson-antimeson pair are separated by small energy gaps, their interactions can be described by a threshold EFT with contact interactions. We work out the matching between the two EFTs obtaining the couplings of the threshold EFT in terms of the mixing potential and quarkonium wave functions.