DESCRIPTION OF SU(3) S-WAVE AND P-WAVE BARYONS
We investigate the structure of the SU(3) octet and decuplet baryons employing a constituent chiral quark model. We study the ground, s-wave and p-wave excited states of the three-quark system with many range gaussian bases. The method, which we employ here, is shown to work quite well in describing the structure of the SU(3) s-wave and p-wave baryons. It is found that the mass differences between positive and negative parity states are well reproduced. It is also found that the pseudoscalar (ps) meson exchange potential plays a very important role in describing the mass of the nucleon resonance N*(1440) (roper). We also discuss how the semirelativistic approach works in the chiral quark model, and how to treat the potential terms in the semirelativistic approach.