Eur. Phys. J. A (2007) 31: 506-508
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2006-10180-y

QNP 2006

Decays of excited baryons in the large- N_c expansion of QCD

¹ Department of Physics, Hampton University, 23668, Hampton, VA, USA
² TJNAF, 23606, Newport News, VA, USA
³ Physics Department, CNEA, (1429), Buenos Aires, Argentina
⁴ Universidad Favaloro, Solís 453, (1078), Buenos Aires, Argentina
⁵ CONICET, Rivadavia 1917, (1033), Buenos Aires, Argentina

^* e-mail: scoccola@tandar.cnea.gov.ar

Received: 8 October 2006
Accepted: 15 October 2006
Published online: 16 February 2007

Abstract

We present the analysis of the decay widths of excited baryons in the framework of the 1/N _c expansion of QCD. These studies are performed up to order 1/N _c and include both positive- and negative-parity excited baryons.