A quark model suggested by quantum chromodynamics with strong spin-dependent forces of magnetic-dipole-magnetic-dipole character perturbing a flavor-independent confinement potential is applied to lowlying positive-parity excited baryons. SU(3) is broken only by quark masses, and this leads to a new choice of basis states in the hyperon sector; couplings to $\overline{K}N$ are especially transparent in this basis. The results, which are largely determined by previous analyses, are in good agreement with the known properties of these states. Spin-orbit forces are once again found to be negligible.

• Received 11 August 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.19.2653