RT Journal Article T1 Probing the infrared quark mass from highly excited baryons A1 Llanes Estrada, Felipe José A1 Bicudo, Pedro A1 Cardoso, M AB We argue that three-quark excited states naturally group into quartets, split into two parity doublets, and that the mass splittings between these parity partners decrease higher up in the baryon spectrum. This decreasing mass difference can be used to probe the running quark mass in the midinfrared power-law regime. A measurement of masses of high-partial-wave resonances should be sufficient to unambiguously establish the approximate degeneracy. We test this concept with the first computation of excited high-j baryon masses in a chirally invariant quark model. PB American Physical Society SN 0031-9007 YR 2009 FD 2009-08-28 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/43951 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/43951 LA eng NO © 2009 The American Physical Society.We thank L. Glozman for useful conversations and grants FPA 2008-00592/FPA, FIS2008-01323, CERN/FP/83582/2008, POCI/FP/81933/2007, /81913/2007, PDCT/FP/63907/2005, and /63923/2005, Spain-Portugal billateral grant HP2006-0018/E-56/07, as well as the Scientific Research Fund of Flanders. NO Spain-Portugal billateral NO Scientific Research Fund of Flanders NO FPA DS Docta Complutense RD 8 abr 2025