Study of Electromagnetic Properties of Light Baryons in the Hypercentral Approach

TL;DR

This paper models light baryons using a non-relativistic potential approach to compute their masses, magnetic moments, transition moments, decay widths, and branching ratios, providing theoretical predictions aligned with experimental data.

Contribution

It introduces a simple variational method within a potential model to predict electromagnetic properties and decay processes of light baryons, extending previous models with new transition and decay calculations.

Findings

Calculated ground-state masses and magnetic moments of light baryons.

Predicted transition magnetic moments and radiative decay widths.

Results show good agreement with experimental data and other theoretical models.

Abstract

Light flavour baryons are studied in a non-relativistic potential model with colour Coulomb plus linear confinement potential using a simple variational method. The ground-state masses and magnetic moments of the light baryons are computed using a spin- and isospin-dependent potential. We extend our scheme to predict the transition magnetic moments of $B_{(J^P={3/2}^+)} \rightarrow B_{(J^P={1/2}^+)}\gamma$ processes. We also compute the radiative decay widths and branching ratios of light baryons. A comparison of our results with those of other works and experimental data is also presented.