A new look at the image baryon multiplet in the image expansion Original Research Article

So far, the masses of excited states of mixed orbital symmetry and in particular those of nonstrange [70,1−] baryons derived in the 1/Nc expansion were based on the separation of a system of Nc quarks into a symmetric core and an excited quark. Here we avoid this separation and show that an advantage of this new approach is to substantially reduce the number of linearly independent operators entering the mass formula. A novelty is that the isospin–isospin term becomes as dominant in Δ as the spin–spin term in N resonances.