FIZIKA B 14 (2005)  2, 245 - 258

COLOURED S-WAVE QUARK CLUSTERS WITH FLAVOUR SYMMETRY BREAKING

H. HOGAASEN^a and P. SORBA^b

^aDepartment of Physics, University of Oslo, Box 1048, NO-0316 Oslo, Norway
E-mail address: hallstein.hogasen@fys.uio.no
^bLaboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique (LAPTH), 9 chemin de Bellevue, B.P. 110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex, France
E-mail address: sorba@lapp.in2p3.fr

Dedicated to the memory of Professor Dubravko Tadić

Received 13 October 2004;        Accepted 20 June 2005
Online 7 December 2005

We study the properties of coloured three-particle s-wave quark clusters when flavour symmetry is broken. The relevance of such clusters for models of pentaquarks is shortly mentioned.

PACS numbers: 12.38-t, 12.39-x
UDC 526.127

Keywords: hadron spectroscopy, chromomagnetism, flavour symmetry breaking, pentaquarks

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