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The Role of the Roper in QCD

Nuclear Theory 2011-08-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We show that existing data suggest a simple scenario in which the nucleon, and the Delta and Roper resonances act as chiral partners in a reducible representation of the full QCD chiral symmetry group. We discuss the peculiar interpretation of this scenario using spin-flavor symmetries of the naive constituent quark model, as well as the consistency of the scenario with large-Nc expectations.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0212039,
  title  = {The Role of the Roper in QCD},
  author = {Silas R. Beane and Ubirajara van Kolck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0212039},
  year   = {2011}
}

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