Radial excited states of the nucleon in quark models with dynamical confinement

Abstract

The Roper state is described in the framework of the chiral chromodielectric model as a single quark excitation in self-consistent meson potentials. The interplay between quark and meson excitations is discussed and we emphasise the role of non-quark degrees of freedom in the electroproduction of nucleon excitations.

Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures, uses World Scientific style file. Talk delivered at the VIII International Workshop on Hadron Physics, Bento Goncalves, RS, Brazil, April 14-19, 2002. To be published by World Scientific in the proceedings of the "International Workshop on Hadron Physics 2002"