Spinor strong interaction model for baryon spectra

Abstract

The spinor strong interaction model recently proposed by the author to account for meson spectra is applied to baryons. Quark-quark strong interaction is of massless scalar type. Harmonic confinement arises as naturally as linear confinement for mesons. No approximation is needed in order to derive, from the proposed covariant spinor baryon equations, coupled nonlinear radial equations for the ground-state spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 baryons in the rest frame. These equations are effectively of sixth order and call for a particle classification other than the usual unrelativistic one. Simplified analytical solutions are given. Internal functions and mass operators are analogously introduced. With these and the above simplified space-time solution, baryon data yield bare quark masses that agree approximately with those analogously obtained earlier from meson data.