I discuss the latest progress in calculating baryon-baryon interactions with lattice QCD. The latest results from the NPLQCD collaboration for nucleon-nucleon scattering along with preliminary calculations of hyperon-nucleon scattering are presented. PACS. 11.15.Ha Lattice gauge theory – 21.80.+a Hypernuclei – 21.30.-x Nuclear Forces

ECENTLY, Gell-Mann' and Ne'eman have independently proposed a scheme, called the eightfold way, in which the eight baryons (ftT, A., Z, and ) are assumed to form a supermultiplet, degenerate in the limit of a certain symmetry, and split into the familiar isotopic multiplets by a dynamical interaction. The symmetry is called unitary symmetry and the relevant group is the group of unitary unimodu...

The original results for the baryon-pion couplings in the large Nc QCD can be understood in a simpler way in the Hartree-Fock picture. The large Nc relation and its 1/Nc correction between the heavy baryonmeson coupling and the light baryon-meson coupling are emphasized. Application to the baryon-ρ meson interactions is straightforward. The implications of recent experimental result for the str...

The recently postulated existence of a baryon antidecuplet [1] can be reproduced in strong coupling theory in which a bare baryon spin 1/2 octet interacts with an octet of pseudoscalar mesons. When a suitable mixture of Fand D-type Yukawa couplings is chosen the dressed baryons group themselves into an infinite number of SU(3) multiplets of which the ground state turns out to be a spin 1/2 bary...

We review the application of non-relativistic constituent quark models to study one, two and three non-strange baryon systems. We present results for the baryon spectra, potentials and observables of the NN, N∆, ∆∆ and NN * (1440) systems, and also for the binding energies of three non-strange baryon systems. We make emphasis on observable effects related to quark antisymmetry and its interplay...

In supersymmetric scenarios with broken R-parity, baryon number violating sparticle decays are possible. We report on the development of a framework allowing detailed studies with special attention given to the hadronization phase. In our model, implemented in the Pythia event generator, the baryon number violating vertex is associated with the appearance of a junction in the colour confinement...

By assuming the existence of (quasi)-linear baryon Regge trajectories, we derive new quadratic Gell-Mann–Okubo type baryon mass relations. These relations are used to predict the masses of the charmed baryons absent from the Baryon Summary Table so far, in good agreement with the predictions of many other approaches.