Baryons as Relativistic Three-Quark Systems

Abstract

We discuss some recent developments in the description of baryons as three-quark systems within relativistic constituent quark models. In particular we address the issues of excitation spectra, electroweak structure, and mesonic resonance decays. The necessities of implementing simultaneously the symmetries of low-energy quantum chromodynamics and of relativistic invariance are emphasized.

Comments: 12 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables. Invited talk at the Workshop "Nuclear Dynamics: From Quarks to Nuclei", Lisbon, 2002. To be published in Few-Body Systems Suppl. 15