Baryon Structure and the Chiral Symmetry of QCD

Abstract

Beyond the spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking scale light and strange baryons should be considered as systems of three constituent quarks with an effective confining interaction and a chiral interaction that is mediated by the octet of Goldstone bosons (pseudoscalar mesons) between the constituent quarks.

Lecture given at the 35. Universitätswochen für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Schladming, Austria, March 1996 (Perturbative and Nonperturbative Aspects of Quantum Field Theory, ed. by H. Latal and W. Schweiger, Springer 1996). Paper (23 pages) with 2 figures and the required macro lamuphys

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• The Spectrum of the Nucleons and the Strange Hyperons and Chiral Dynamics
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• Non-perturbative determination of quark masses in quenched lattice QCD with the Kogut-Susskind fermion action