Norbury J W, Badavi F F, Townsend L W
Physics Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23508, USA.
Am J Phys. 1986 Nov;54(11):1031-4. doi: 10.1119/1.14818.
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.