Spin of ground state baryons
Abstract
We calculate the quark spin contribution to the total angular momentum of flavor octet and flavor decuplet ground state baryons using a spin-flavor symmetry based parametrization method of quantum chromodynamics. We find that third order SU(6) symmetry breaking three-quark operators are necessary to explain the experimental result Sigma1=0.32(10). For spin 3/2 decuplet baryons we predict that the quark spin contribution is Sigma3=3.93(22), i.e. considerably larger than their total angular momentum.
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