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Baryon masses at second order in large- chiral perturbation theory
We consider flavor breaking in the the octet and decuplet baryon masses at
second order in large- chiral perturbation theory, where is the number
of QCD colors. We assume that , where is the number of light quark
flavors, and are the parameters controlling
flavor breaking in chiral perturbation theory. We consistently include
non-analytic contributions to the baryon masses at orders , , and . The corrections are small for
the relations that follow from symmetry alone, but the corrections to
the large- relations are large and have the wrong sign. Chiral
power-counting and large- consistency allow a 2-loop contribution at order
, and a non-trivial explicit calculation is required to show
that this contribution vanishes. At second order in the expansion, there are
eight relations that are non-trivial consequences of the expansion, all
of which are well satisfied within the experimental errors. The average
deviation at this order is 7 \MeV for the \De I = 0 mass differences and
0.35 \MeV for the \De I \ne 0 mass differences, consistent with the
expectation that the error is of order .Comment: 19 pages, 2 uuencoded ps figs, uses revte
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