Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1994-05-12
Phys.Rev. D51 (1995) 2322-2331
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
19 pages, plain TeX, 4 uuencoded postscrip figures, LBL-35539, NSF-ITP-94-42
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.51.2322
Using recently-developed diagrammatic techniques, I derive some general results concerning baryons in the $1/N$ expansion, where $N$ is the number of QCD colors. I show that the spin-flavor relations which hold for baryons in the large-$N$ limit, as well as the form of the corrections to these relations at higher orders in $1/N$, hold even if $N_F / N \sim 1$, where $N_F$ is the number of light quark flavors. I also show that the amplitude for a baryon to emit $n$ mesons is $O(1 / N^{n / 2 - 1})$, and that meson loops attached to baryon lines are unsupressed in the large-$N$ limit, independent of $N_F$. For $N_F > 2$, there are ambiguities in the extrapolation away from $N = 3$ because the baryon flavor multiplets for a given spin grow with $N$. I argue that the $1/N$ expansion is valid for baryons with spin $O(1)$ and {\it arbitrary} flavor quantum numbers, including e.g. baryons with isospin and/or strangeness $O(N)$. This allows the formulation of a large-$N$ expansion in which it is not necessary to identify the physical baryons with particular large-$N$ states. $SU(N_F)$ symmetry can be made manifest to all orders in $1/N$, yet group theory factors must be evaluated explicitly only for $N_F = N = 3$. To illustrate this expansion, I consider the non-singlet axial currents, baryon mass splittings, and matrix elements of $\mybar ss$ and $\mybar s \gam_\mu \gam_5 s$ in the nucleon.
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