Masses of multibaryons in quark models: camparison of bag model and nonrelativistic quark model predictions

A quasiclassical approximation in the hyperspherical formalism is applied to calculate the spectra of some 6q, 9q and 12q states in the quark potential model. The quasiclassical approximation is shown to lead to very accurate predictions for the masses of multiquark states. The significant difference in the predictions for masses of multiquark states in the QPM and the bag model (400 MeV for 6q, 800 MeV for 9q and 1400 MeV for 12q) is due to the faster increase of the multiquark potential energy in the QPM and may be removed damping the locking potential at small distances