Published August 1, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Decoupling spurious baryon states in the 1/Nc expansion of QCD

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1504 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-4111 (United States)

Description

We identify spurious states in meson-baryon scattering, those that appear in QCD for Nc>3 but decouple for Nc=3. The key observation is that the relevant flavor SU(3) Clebsch-Gordan coefficients contain factors of 1-3/Nc. We show that this method works even if SU(3) is badly broken. We also observe that resonant scattering poles lying outside naive quark-model multiplets are not necessarily large Nc artifacts, and can survive via configuration mixing at Nc=3

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
74
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 036001-036001.6
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2006 The American Physical Society