Dressed-quarks and the Roper resonance

A Dyson-Schwinger equation calculation of the light hadron spectrum, which correlates the masses of meson and baryon ground- and excited-states within a single framework, produces a description of the Roper resonance that corresponds closely with conclusions drawn recently by EBAC. Namely, the Roper is a particular type of radial excitation of the nucleon’s dressed-quark core augmented by a material meson cloud component. There are, in addition, some surprises.