Baryon spectroscopy in the unquenched quark model

Abstract

We discuss some applications of the unquenched quark model which is an extension of the CQM that includes the effects of sea quarks via a 3P0 quark-antiquark pair-creation mechanism. Particular attention is paid to the electromagnetic couplings and beta decays of baryons. It is shown that the observed discrepancies between the experimental data and the predictions of the CQM can be accounted for in large part by the effects of sea quarks in the unquenched quark model.

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, invited talk at XVII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy and Structure, submitted for publication in Proceedings of Science