%0 Journal Article %T Higher bottom and bottom-strange mesons %A Yuan Sun %A Qin-Tao Song %A Dian-Yong Chen %A Xiang Liu %A Shi-Lin Zhu %J Physics %D 2014 %I arXiv %R 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.054026 %X Motivated by the recent observation of the orbital excitation $B(5970)$ by CDF collaboration, we have performed a systematical study of the mass spectrum and strong decay patterns of the higher $B$ and $B_s$ mesons. Hopefully the present investigation may provide valuable clues to further experimental exploration of these intriguing excited heavy mesons. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1595v3