Physik-Department, Technische Universit?t München, D-85747 Garching, Germany, DE Physik-Department, Technische Universit?t München, D-85747 Garching, Germany, DE
Abstract:
We analyse the baryon mass spectrum in a framework which combines the 1/Nc expansion with chiral perturbation theory. Meson loop contributions involving the full SU(3) octet of pseudoscalar Goldstone
bosons are evaluated, and the influence of explicit chiral and flavor symmetry breaking by non-zero and unequal quark masses
is investigated. We also discuss sigma terms and the strangeness contribution to the nucleon mass.
Received: 29 June 1998 / Revised version: 25 November 1998