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Title: Photoproduction of positive parity baryons in the 1/Nc expansion of QCD

Journal Article · · Phys. Rev. Lett.

We analyze the photoproduction helicity amplitudes for non-strange positive parity excited baryons in the context of the $$1/N_c$$ expansion of QCD. Our results strongly suggest that, although one-body transition operators provide the dominant contributions, two-body transition operators are definitely required in order to get good fits to the presently known empirical amplitudes. The significance of this result for quark model calculations is briefly discussed.

Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE - Office of Energy Research (ER)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84ER40150
OSTI ID:
912693
Report Number(s):
JLAB-THY-06-601; DOE/ER/40150-4171; hep-ph/0701244; PRLTAO; TRN: US0800488
Journal Information:
Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 99; ISSN 0031-9007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English