Spectra of heavy-light and heavy-heavy mesons containing charm quarks, including higher spin states for Nf=2+1

Abstract

We study the spectra of heavy-light and heavy-heavy mesons containing charm quarks, including higher spin states. We use two sets of Nf=2+1 gauge configurations, one set from QCDSF using SLiNC action, and the other configurations from the Budapest-Marseille-Wuppertal collaboration, using the HEX smeared clover action. To extract information about the excited states, we choose a suitable basis of operators to implement the variational method.