What are essential degrees of freedom in baryons?
This is one of the most fundamental questions in hadron physics. Quarks are thought to be elementaly particles. A single quark cannot be kept separated from a hadron and is confined in a hadron.
The constituent quark model (CQM) well describes the properties of hadrons, but sometimes fails in excited states. There remain many undiscovered states in the CQM, which is a long-standing puzzle, known as the so-called missing resonance problem. The mass order of the resonance baryons