Relativistic corrections for two- and three-body flux tube model

Understand

We generalize the relativistic flux tube model for arbitrary two- or three-body systems.

• The spin-independent and spin-dependent contributions of the flux tube to the total Hamiltonian are computed in perturbation.
• In particular, we show that the spin-dependent part exhibits a universal spin-orbit form: It does not depend on the nature of the confined particles.
• The general equations we present, being well-defined for light particles, can thus be applied to usual as well as exotic hadrons such as hybrid mesons and glueballs.