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Baryon magnetic moments in alternate 1/N{sub c} expansions

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1504 (United States)
Recent work shows not only the necessity of a 1/N{sub c} expansion to explain the observed mass spectrum of the lightest baryons, but also that at least two distinct large N{sub c} expansions, in which quarks transform under either the color-fundamental or the two-index antisymmetric representation of SU(N{sub c}), work comparably well. Here we show that the baryon magnetic moments do not support this ambivalence; they strongly prefer the color-fundamental 1/N{sub c} expansion, providing experimental evidence that nature decisively distinguishes among 1/N{sub c} expansions for this observable.
OSTI ID:
21503910
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 83; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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