We investigate the scattering of heavy‐light K and D mesons by nucleons at low energies.
The short‐distance part of the interaction is described by quark‐gluon interchange and the
longdistance part is described by a one‐meson‐exchange model that includes the
contributions of vector (ρ, ω) and scalar (σ) mesons. The microscopic quark model
incorporates a confining Coulomb potential extracted from lattice QCD simulations and a
transverse hyperfine interaction consistent with a finite gluon propagator in the infrared. The …