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Hadron Systematics and Emergent Diquarks

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-08-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We briefly review a variety of theoretical and phenomenological indications for the probable importance of powerful diquark correlations in hadronic physics. We demonstrate that the bulk of light hadron spectroscopy can be organized using three simple hypotheses: Regge-Chew-Frautschi mass formulae, feebleness of spin-orbit forces, and energetic distinctions among a few different diquark configurations. Those hypotheses can be implemented in a semi-classical model of color flux tubes, extrapolated down from large orbital angular momentum LL. We discuss refinements of the model to include the effects of tunneling, mass loading, and internal excitations. We also discern effects of diquark correlations in observed patterns of baryon decays. Many predictions and suggestions for further work appear.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0602128,
  title  = {Hadron Systematics and Emergent Diquarks},
  author = {Alexander Selem and Frank Wilczek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0602128},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

18 pages, 11 figures. Talk by FW at a workshop at Schloss Ringberg, October 2005. To appear in the Proceedings

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