Electroproduction of the Roper resonance and the constituent quark model

Sep, 1996
14 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 397 (1997) 13-19
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Report number:
  • INFN-ISS-96-8

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Abstract:
A parameter-free evaluation of the NP11(1440)N - P_{11}(1440) electromagnetic transition form factors is performed within a light-front constituent quark model, using for the first time the eigenfunctions of a mass operator which generates a large amount of configuration mixing in baryon wave functions. A one-body electromagnetic current, which includes the phenomenological constituent quark form factors already determined from an analysis of pion and nucleon experimental data, is adopted. For Q 2Q~2 up to few (GeV/c) 2(GeV/c)~2, at variance with the enhancement found in the elastic channel, the effect of configuration mixing results in a significant suppression of the calculated helicity amplitudes with respect to both relativistic and non-relativistic calculations, based on a simple gaussian-like ansatz for the baryon wave functions.
  • 13.60.Rj
  • 13.40.Gp
  • 12.39.Ki
  • 12.39.Pn
  • Baryon resonances
  • Electromagnetic form factors
  • Relativistic quark models
  • electron nucleon: exclusive reaction
  • N(1440): electroproduction
  • form factor: transition