Concavity of the quarkonium potential
- 1 May 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 33 (9) , 2723-2725
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.33.2723
Abstract
The heavy-quark–antiquark potential is shown to be a monotone nondecreasing and concave function of the separation. This property holds independent of the gauge group and the details of the matter sector.Keywords
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