Masses of J^PC =1^-+ exotic quarkonia in a Bethe-Salpeter-equation approach

Abstract

We investigate the properties of mesons with the exotic J^PC = 1^-+ quantum numbers. Starting out from the light-quark domain, where the π_1 states are used as references, we predict the masses of analogous quarkonia for c\bar{c} and b\bar{b} configurations. We employ a covariant Dyson-Schwinger-Bethe-Salpeter-equation approach with a rainbow-ladder truncated model of quantum chromodynamics.

6 pages, 3 figures, revised version incorporating editorial and reviewer comments