1/Nc expansion and the spin-flavor structure of the quark interaction in the constituent quark model

We study the hierarchy of the coefficients in the 1/Nc expansion for the negative parity L=1 excited baryons from the perspective of the constituent quark model. This is related to the problem of determining the spin-flavor structure of the quark interaction. The most general two-body scalar interac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Pirjol, Dan, Schat, Carlos Luis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/78223
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/78223
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Strong Interactions
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Sumario:We study the hierarchy of the coefficients in the 1/Nc expansion for the negative parity L=1 excited baryons from the perspective of the constituent quark model. This is related to the problem of determining the spin-flavor structure of the quark interaction. The most general two-body scalar interaction between quarks contains the spin-flavor structures t1at2a,s →1•s→2 and s→1•s →2t1at2a. We show that in the limit of a zero range interaction all these structures are matched onto the same hadronic mass operator Sc2, which gives a possible explanation for the dominance of this operator in the 1/N c expansion for the L=1 states and implies that in this limit it is impossible to distinguish between these different spin-flavor structures. Modeling a finite range interaction through the exchange of a vector and pseudoscalar meson, we propose a test for the spin-flavor dependence of the quark forces. For the scalar part of the quark interaction, we find that both pion exchange and gluon exchange are compatible with the data. © 2010 The American Physical Society.