Self-energies of ground-state octet and decuplet baryon states due to the coupling to the baryon-meson continuum

Abstract

We present an unquenched quark model calculation of the mass shifts of ground-state octet and decuplet baryons due to the coupling to the meson-baryon continuum. The $q\bar{q}$ pair-creation effects are taken explicitly into account through a microscopic, QCD-inspired, quark-antiquark pair- creation mechanism.

8 pages, 1figure, arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1306.2874