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Differences between heavy and light quarks

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arxiv nucl-th/9710062 v1 pith:KL35PFWZ submitted 1997-10-27 nucl-th hep-ph

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The quark Dyson-Schwinger equation shows that there are distinct differences between light and heavy quarks. The dynamical mass function of the light quarks is characterised by a sharp increase below 1 GeV, whereas the mass function of the heavy quarks is approximately constant in this infrared region. As a consequence, the heavy-meson masses increase linearly with the current-quark masses, whereas the light pseudoscalar meson masses are proportional to the square root of the current-quark masses.

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