The pentaquark component is included in the proton wave functions to study phi meson production proton-antiproton annihilation reactions. With all possible configurations of the uuds subsystem proposed for describing the strangeness spin and magnetic
moment of the proton, we estimate the branching ratios of the annihilation reactions at rest proton-antiproton to phi + X (X=pi, eta, rho, omega) from atomic proton-antiproton S- and P-wave states by using effective quark line diagrams incorporating the 3P0 model. The best agreement of theoretical prediction with the experimental data is found when the pentaquark configuration of the proton wave function takes the flavor-spin symmetry, [4]_FS [22]_F [22]_S.
The axial form factor as well as the axial charge of octet baryons are studied in the perturbative chiral quark model (PCQM) with the quark wave functions predetermined by fitting the theoretical results of the proton charge form factor to experiment
al data. The theoretical results are found, based on the predetermined quark wave functions, in good agreement with experimental data and lattice values. This may indicate that the electric charge and axial charge distributions of the constituent quarks are the same. The study reveals that the meson cloud plays an important role in the axial charge of octet baryons, contributing 30%-40% to the total values, and strange sea quarks have a considerable contribution to the axial charge of the $Sigma$ and $Xi$.
The electromagnetic properties of baryon octet are studied in the perturbative chiral quark model (PCQM). The relativistic quark wave function is extracted by fitting the theoretical results of the proton charge form factor to experimental data and t
he predetermined quark wave function is applied to study the electromagnetic form factors of other octet baryons as well as magnetic moments, charge and magnetic radii. The PCQM results are found, based on the predetermined quark wave function, in good agreement with experimental data.
We study the reaction $e^+e^-tobar DD$ near threshold in the $^3P_0$ non-relativistic quark model, including as intermediate states the $J/psi$, $psi(2S)$, $psi(3770)$ and $psi(4040)$ mesons. The work reveals that experimental data strongly favor one
of the two $psi(2S)-psi(3770)$ mixing angles derived by fitting to the $e^-e^+$ partial decay widths of the $psi(2S)$ and $psi(3770)$ mesons. The meson $X(3940)$ as well as the resonance around 3.9 GeV observed by Belle and BaBar Collaborations in the reaction $e^+e^-rightarrow bar DD$ is unlikely to be a $cbar c$ $I^G(J^{PC})=0^-(1^{--})$ state.
The reactions $Sigma_b^* to Lambda_b pi$, $Sigma_b to Lambda_b pi$, and $Xi_b^* to Xi_b pi$ are studied in the $^3P_0$ non-relativistic quark model with all the model parameters fixed in the sector of light quarks. The theoretical predictions for the
decay widths $Gamma_{Sigma_b^* to Lambda_b pi}$ and $Gamma_{Sigma_b to Lambda_b pi}$ are consistent with the experimental data of the CDF Collaboration. Using as an input the recent mass of $Xi_b$ and the theoretical predictions mass of $Xi_b^{*}$, a narrow decay width about 1 MeV is predicted for the bottom baryon $Xi_b^*$. The work suggests that the $^3P_0$ quark dynamics is of independence of environments where heavy quarks may or may not be a component of baryons.
