English

D-shell mixing in light baryons and its effect on the orbital motion

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-03-18 v1

Abstract

The standard description of the nucleon in the non-relativistic quark model is an 1S,L=01S,L=0 state without orbital motion. Yet, there are several indications from phenomenology that an admixture of states with nonzero orbital motion maybe substantial. In this paper we focus on the ``second shell" of the nucleon excitations (D-shell), for which we give a modern description of the wave functions. We follow it by investigating what we call a ``maximal mixing" scenario, assuming a hypothetical long-range tensor force. We give the explicit wave functions for all states, before and after mixing, and re-assess many predictions such as the magnetic moments, the standard and transitional form-factors from the nucleon to NN^*. Unexpectedly, in this scenario we can reproduce the long-puzzling features of the Roper resonance N(1440)N^*( 1440). But even in this extreme case, the admixture of the 1D,L=21D,L=2 state to a nucleon remains significantly smaller than expected from phenomenology.

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@article{arxiv.2503.13273,
  title  = {D-shell mixing in light baryons and its effect on the orbital motion},
  author = {Nicholas Miesch and Edward Shuryak and Ismail Zahed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.13273},
  year   = {2025}
}