Speaker: Chandana Jayalath (Hampton University) 

Title: Excited baryon decays in 1/N_c expansion 

Abstract:

The decays of positive parity excited baryons via emission of a pseudo-scalar 
mesons are analyzed in the frame work of $1/N_c$ expansion to order $1/N_c$ 
and to first order in $SU(3)$ symmetry breaking. In particular, the P and F 
wave decays of $\ell=0$ (Roper), and $\ell=2$ baryons are studied using the
available partial decay widths.