Convergence of the self-energy in a relativistic chiral quark model: excited nucleon and Δ sector

Abstract

A convergence of the valence quark self-energies in the 1S, 2S, 1P1/2, 1P3/2 orbits induced by pion- and gluon-field configurations is shown in the frame of a relativistic chiral quark model. It is shown that in order to reach a convergence, one needs to include the contribution of the intermediate quark and anti-quark states with the total momentum up to j = 25/2. It is argued that a restriction to the lowest mode when estimating the self-energy is not a good approximation.