We present a simple application of the three‐dimensional harmonic oscillator which should provide a very nice particle physics example to be presented in introductory undergraduate quantum mechanics course. The idea is to use the nonrelativistic quark model to calculate the spin‐averaged mass levels of the charmonium and bottomonium spectra.
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© 1986 American Association of Physics Teachers.
1986
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