Relativistic phenomenology of meson spectra with a covariant quark model in Minkowski space

Abstract

In this work, we perform a covariant treatment of quark-antiquark systems.We calculate the spectra and wave functions using a formalism based on the Covariant Spectator Theory (CST). Our results not only reproduce very well the experimental data with a very small set of global parameters, but they also allow a direct test of the predictive power of covariant kernels.