Octet and Decuplet Baryons in a Confining and Covariant Diquark-Quark Model

Abstract

We treat baryons as bound states of scalar or axialvector diquarks and a constituent quark which interact through quark exchange. We obtain fully four-dimensional wave functions for both octet and decuplet baryons as solutions of the corresponding Bethe-Salpeter equation. Applications currently under investigation are: electromagnetic and strong form factors and strangeness production processes.

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure; talk given by R. Alkofer at PANIC 99