Is the Spectrum of Highly Excited Mesons Purely Coulombian?

El Houssine Mezoir, P. González
2008 Physical Review Letters  
We show that a static central potential may provide a precise description of highly excited light unflavoured mesons. Due to string breaking this potential becomes of chromoelectric type at sufficiently large quark-antiquark distances giving rise to a coulombian spectrum. The same conclusion can be inferred for any other meson sector through a straightforward extension of our analysis.
doi:10.1103/physrevlett.101.232001 pmid:19113540 fatcat:jzk6wxqtnbf2degklmylgebgpa