Chiral Quark Model Approach for the Study of Baryon Resonances

Abstract

We report the chiral quark model approach for the study of baryon resonances in meson photoproduction and meson-nucleon scattering processes. Focussing on the $\pi N$ and $K N$ scatterings, we show that the cross sections near threshold can be well accounted for by the chiral quark model with only few parameters. The $S$-wave dominance in both $\pi^- p\to \eta n$ and $K^- p\to \Sigma^0\pi^0$ can be well understood in the quark model framework. In particular, the quark model provides a constraint on the relative signs for resonance coupling form factors, which seems to be consistent with results from isobaric models.