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Systematics of the Light and Strange Baryons and the Symmetries of QCD

L. Ya. Glozman, D. O. Riska

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9412231

Abstract

The spectra of the nucleons and the strange hyperons are well described by a harmonic confinement potential for the constituent quarks and an SU(3) flavor-symmetric interaction mediated by the pseudoscalar octet that is associated with the hidden approximate chiral symmetry of QCD. The spectrum is formed of multiplets of SU(6)FS× U(6)conf, which are mixed by the octet interaction. With 4 matrix elements of the octet mediated interaction determined by the lowest mass splittings in the nucleon spectrum the resulting mass formula predicts the whole spectrum with an accuracy of 5\%.

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