Quartet of spin-3/2 baryons in chiral multiplet $(1,1/2)\oplus (1/2,1)$ with mirror assignment

Abstract

We study the possible existence of chiral partners in the spin-$\text{thalf}$ sector of the baryon spectrum. We consider a quartet scheme where four spin-3/2 baryons, $P_{33}$, $D_{33}$, $D_{13}$ and $P_{13}$, group into higher-dimensional chiral multiplets $(1,\text{half})\oplus (\text{half},1)$ with a mirror assignment. With an effective $SU(2{)}_R\times SU(2{)}_L$ Lagrangian, we derive constraints imposed by chiral symmetry together with the mirror assignment on the masses and coupling constants of the quartet. Using the effective Lagrangian, we try to find a set of baryons suitable for the chiral quartet. It turns out that two cases reasonably agree with the mass pattern of the quartet: ($\Delta (1600)$, $\Delta (1940)$, $N(1520)$, $N(1720)$) and ($\Delta (1920)$, $\Delta (1940)$, $N(2080)$, $N(1900)$).

Comments: 23 pages, 1figures, 6tables. Published in Phys.Rev.D82:034007,2010