Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-07-10
AIP Conf.Proc.1182:467-470,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
4 pages, Invited talk at CIPANP 2009, May 26-31, 2009, to be published in the proceedings
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.3293846
The 1/N_c expansion of QCD with N_c=3 has been successful in explaining a wide variety of QCD phenomenology. Here I focus on the contracted spin-flavor symmetry of baryons in the large-N_c limit and deviations from spin-flavor symmetry due to corrections suppressed by powers of 1/N_c. Baryon masses provide an important example of the 1/N_c expansion, and successful predictions of masses of heavy-quark baryons continue to be tested by experiment. The ground state charmed baryon masses have all been measured, and five of the eight ground state bottom baryon masses have been found. Results of the 1/N_c expansion can aid in the discovery of the remaining bottom baryons. The brand new measurement of the \Omega_b^- mass by the CDF collaboration conflicts with the original D0 discovery value and is in excellent agreement with the prediction of the 1/N_c expansion.
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