Intriguing aspects of light baryon resonances

Abstract

We discuss that some light baryon resonances exhibit properties which cannot be described when attributing a three-valence quark structure to them. Besides pointing out the hadron resonances which clearly require description beyond the quark model, we focus on the third s11, N∗ state and its decay to final states consisting of the lightest hyperon resonances which have a partial width comparable to that for the decay to πN. Such properties of the mentioned nucleon resonance get manifested in the cross sections and other observables related to processes producing the lightest hyperon resonances. We show that all these findings arise from the strong association of the baryon resonances to the dynamics among the ground-state hadrons.