Universal description of S-wave meson spectra in a renormalized light-cone QCD-inspired model

A light-cone QCD-inspired model, with the mass squared operator consisting of a harmonic oscillator potential as confinement and a Dirac delta interaction, is used to study S-wave meson spectra. The two parameters of the harmonic potential and quark masses are fixed by the masses of ρ(770), ρ(1450), J/ψ, ψ(2S), K^*(892), and B^*. We apply a renormalization method to define the model, in which the pseudoscalar ground state mass fixes the renormalized strength of the Dirac delta interaction. The model presents a universal and satisfactory description of both singlet and triplet states of S-wave mesons and the corresponding radial excitations.