1. CCAST (World Laboratory), Beijing 100080;2. Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871;3. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academia Sinica, Beijing 100080, China;4. Department of Physics, Graduate School, Beijing 100039
Abstract:
The string Coulomb term in the quark-antiquark potential which is due to the transverse. vibrations of the flux tube in the string picture is discussed. Possible phenomenological indication evidences for this term and the color screening effects are studied by examining its spin-dependent effects on both the fine and hyperfine splittings of the P wave charmonium states.