Screened potential and the baryon spectrum

Abstract

We show that in a quark model scheme the use of a screened potential, suggested by lattice QCD, instead of an infinitely rising one with the interquark distance, provides a more adequate description of the high-energy baryon spectrum. In particular an almost perfect parallelism between the predicted and observed number of states comes out throwing new light about the so-called missing resonance problem.

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D