Excited Baryons in the 1/N_c Expansion

Abstract

We review results for the mass spectrum of orbitally excited baryons obtained in the $1/N_c$ expansion. We show the dependence of various contributions to the mass operator as a function of the excitation energy.

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, based on a talk given by N. Matagne at the Workshop on the Physics of Excited Baryons (NSTAR 2005), Tallahassee, Florida, 12-15 October 2005