Review of spectroscopy and strong decays of heavy baryons

Models which are used to examine both masses and decays of the baryons are considered. One major question of interest is the exact nature of the inter quark potential. Since baryon spectroscopy samples a different region of this potential than meson spectroscopy, it is of some interest to compare fits to both sets of data. Of even more interest would be an experiment starting with quarks placed fairly far apart and then moving them closer together. In the absence of such an experiment, the distance is varied by changing the quark flavour. Thus, changing from light u, d and s quarks to the c and b quarks yields a wealth of information about the inter quark potential. (orig.)