The Constituent Quark Model
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2025-04-11 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
In this chapter we give a pedagogical introduction to the constituent quark model. The explanation of magnetic moments of the nucleons was crucial to introduce an effective quark mass for light quarks that nowadays are understood as an effect of Spontaneous Chiral Symmetry Breaking in QCD. We give an overview of the first applications of the model and an introduction to the most modern developments studying states beyond the naive quark model as tetraquarks and pentaquarks.
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@article{arxiv.2504.07897,
title = {The Constituent Quark Model},
author = {D. R. Entem and F. Fernández and P. G. Ortega and J. Segovia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.07897},
year = {2025}
}
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commissioned article for the Encyclopedia of Particle Physics