Baryon Masses in a Relativistic Quark-Diquark Model

Abstract

Masses of ground-state spin-$\frac{3}{2}$ baryons are calculated in a relativistic quark-diquark model with a potential motivated by QCD. The parameters of the model are determined by fitting vector-meson masses, and so the calculation for baryons contains no free parameters. Results are in rather good agreement with experiment. Moreover, starting from dynamical quark masses close to the so-called current masses, effective quark masses are obtained in the right range to be identified with constituent masses.