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Quark Models of Baryon Masses and Decays
The description of baryon resonance masses and decays in the constituent
quark model is outlined, with emphasis on the potential-model approach combined
with the 3P0 pair-creation model of strong decays. This approach allows the
estimation of branching fractions for baryon states missing in pion nucleon
elastic scattering analyses but expected to be present in electromagnetic
production. Prospects for the discovery of hybrid baryons are discussed. A
subjective list of the most important corrections required to this approach is
presented.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures. Invited contribution to the COSY Workshop on
Baryon Excitations, Juelich, 2-3 May 200
Language learning as psycho-social support: translanguaging space as safe space in superdiverse refugee settings
This paper explores language learning for displaced people in the countries bordering Syria and attempts to establish a link between the concept of translanguaging and the concept of safe spaces used by NGOs. The paper uses the term ‘displaced people’ as it is this feature of being dis-placed that the paper seeks to explore through the lens of superdiversity and its connections to spaces for translanguaging. The concept of superdiversity helps us understand the stratification and multiplication of the processes and effects of migration which lead to heightened complexity, while the concept of translanguaging has been incorporated into this heuristic to help understand how people communicate in these superdiverse settings. The main finding is that monolingual ideologies of language learning pervade the safe spaces which one NGO provides, though the aim is not to single out this one NGO for criticism when the majority of NGOs visited orient to similar monolingual outlooks which disregard home languages at a time when vulnerable adults, adolescents and children need to draw on all of the language resources in their repertoires to make sense of their new surroundings
Structure of baryons in a relativistic quark model
Baryonic excitation spectra, electroweak and strong decay properties are
discussed within a relativistically covariant constituent quark model based on
the instantaneous approximation to the three-body Bethe-Salpeter equation.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, Contribution to the Proceedings of the 17th
International IUPAP Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Durham, North
Carolina, USA, 5-10 June 200
Interpretation of the Theta+ as an isotensor pentaquark with weakly decaying partners
The Theta+(1540), recently observed at LEPS, DIANA and CLAS, is hypothesized
to be an isotensor resonance. This implies the existence of a multiplet where
the Theta++, Theta+ and Theta0 have isospin-violating strong decays, and the
Theta+++ and Theta- have weak decays and so are long-lived. Production
mechanisms for these states are discussed. The J^P assignment of the Theta is
most likely 1/2^- or 3/2^-.Comment: references added, section on pentaquark model revised, 11 pages,
LaTeX, accepted for publication in Physics Letters
Quark Models of Baryon Masses and Decays
The application of quark models to the spectra and strong and electromagnetic
couplings of baryons is reviewed. This review focuses on calculations which
attempt a global description of the masses and decay properties of baryons,
although recent developments in applying large N_c QCD and lattice QCD to the
baryon spectrum are described. After outlining the conventional
one-gluon-exchange picture, models which consider extensions to this approach
are contrasted with dynamical quark models based on Goldstone-boson exchange
and an algebraic collective-excitation approach. The spectra and
electromagnetic and strong couplings that result from these models are compared
with the quantities extracted from the data and each other, and the impact of
various model assumptions on these properties is emphasized. Prospects for the
resolution of the important issues raised by these comparisons are discussed.Comment: 91 page review article; 25 figures, 9 tables; submitted to Progress
in Particle and Nuclear Physic
Quasi-Two-Body Decays of Nonstrange Baryons
We examine the decays of nonstrange baryons to the final states ,
, , , , , and
, in a relativized pair-creation() model which has
been developed in a previous study of the decays of the same baryon
states. As it is our goal to provide a guide for the possible discovery of new
baryon states at CEBAF and elsewhere, we examine the decays of resonances which
have already been seen in the partial-wave analyses, along with those of states
which are predicted by the quark model but which remain undiscovered. The level
of agreement between our calculation and the available widths from the
partial-wave analyses is encouraging.Comment: 41 pages, CEBAF-TH-93-1
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