Chiral aspects of baryon structure in the quark model

Abstract

The implications of chiral symmetry for the quark model are discussed. In particular its connection with the meson-baryon approach is outlined. It is stressed that in the closure approximation, where the intermediate baryon states are used instead of the original quark basis, it is imperative to take into account the whole infinite tower of the radially excited states in order that the crucially important effects related to the short-range part of the meson-exchange interaction be preserved. It is shown that the chiral constituent quark model is able to explain the nucleon axial vector coupling constant and automatically incorporates all the necessary loop corrections.