Chiral quark model approach for the study of baryon resonances

We report the chiral quark model approach for the study of baryon resonances in meson photoproduction and meson-nucleon scattering processes. Focussing on the πN and KN scatterings, we show that the cross sections near threshold can be well accounted for by the chiral quark model with only few parameters. The S-wave dominance in both π- p→ηn and K- p→Σ0π0 can be well understood in the quark model framework. In particular, the quark model provides a constraint on the relative signs for resonance coupling form factors, which seems to be consistent with results from isobaric models. (author)