Roles of quark-pair correlations in baryon structure and non-leptonic weak transitions of hyperon

Roles of quark-pair correlations in the baryon structure and the hyperon non-leptonic weak decay are studied within the non-relativistic constituent quark model. We construct the SU(3) ground state baryons by solving the three body problem rigorously with the confinement force and the short range spin-dependent attraction. We emphasize the importance of the $s=0$ quark-quark correlation to reproduce the $\Delta I=1/2$ enhancement of the hyperon decay, and demonstrate that resulting static properties as well as the decay amplitudes agree with the experiments, if we deal with the $s=0$ correlation properly. Special attention is also put on the consequences of the SU(6) spin-flavor symmetry breaking due to the $s=0$ correlation. Calculated magnetic moments are the almost same as the naive SU(6) predictions in spite of the existence of the strong correlations.