Published April 1, 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Excited baryon spectroscopy in the 1/Nc expansion

  • 1. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (Argentina)
  • 2. Universidad Favaloro, Solis 453, (1078) Buenos Aires (Argentina)
  • 3. Physics Dept., Comision Nac. Energia Atomica, Libertador 8250, (1429) Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Description

We analyze the masses of the negative parity SU(6) 70-plet baryons using the 1/Nc expansion to order 1/Nc and to first order in SU(3) breaking. At this level of precision there are twenty predictions which include the well known Gell-Mann Okubo and equal spacing relations together with four new relations involving SU(3) breaking splittings in different SU(3) multiplets. Although the breaking of SU(6) symmetry occurs at zeroth order in 1/Nc, it turns out to be small. The dominant source of the breaking is the hyperfine interaction which is of order 1/Nc. The spin-orbit interaction, of zeroth order in 1/Nc, is entirely fixed by the splitting between the singlet states Λ(1405) and Λ(1520), and the spin-orbit puzzle is solved by the presence of other zeroth order operators involving flavor exchange

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
660
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 48-61
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
2. international workshop on hadron physics
Dates
25-29 Sep 2002
Place
Coimbra (Portugal)

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(c) 2003 American Institute of Physics