Within an extended chiral constituent quark formalism, we investigate contributions from all possible five-quark components in the octet baryons to the pion-baryon ($sigma_{pi B}$) and strangeness-baryon ($sigma_{s B}$) sigma terms; $B equiv N,~Lambd
a,~Sigma,~Xi$. The probabilities of the quark-antiquark components in the ground-state baryon octet wave functions are calculated by taking the baryons to be admixtures of three- and five-quark components, with the relevant transitions handled {it via} the $^{3}$P$_{0}$ mechanism. Predictions for $sigma_{pi B}$ and $sigma_{s B}$ obtained by using input parameters taken from the literature are reported. Our results turn out to be, in general, consistent with the findings via lattice QCD and chiral perturbation theory.
Spectrum of low-lying five-quark configurations with strangeness quantum number $S=-3$ and negative parity is studied in three kinds of constituent quark models, namely the one gluon exchange, Goldstone Boson exchange, and instanton-induced hyperfine
interaction models, respectively. Our numerical results show that the lowest energy states in all the three employed models are lying at $sim$1800 MeV, about 200 MeV lower than predictions of various quenched three-quark models. In addition, it is very interesting that the state with the lowest energy in one gluon exchange model is with spin 3/2, but 1/2 in the other two models.
Within an extended chiral constituent quark model, three- and five-quark structure of the $S_{01}$ resonance $Lambda(1405)$ is investigated. Helicity amplitudes for the electromagnetic decays ($Lambda(1405) to Lambda(1116)gamma$, $Sigma(1194)gamma$),
and transition amplitudes for strong decays ($Lambda(1405)toSigma(1194)pi$, $ K^{-}p$) are drived, as well as the relevant decay widths. The experimental value for the strong decay width, $Gamma_{Lambda(1405)to (Sigma pi)^circ}=50pm 2$ MeV, is well reproduced with about 50% of five-quark admixture in the $Lambda(1405)$. Important effects due to the configuration mixings among $Lambda^{2}_{1}P_{A}$, $Lambda^{2}_{8}P_{M}$ and $Lambda^{4}_{8}P_{M}$ are found. In addition, transitions between the three- and five-quark components in the baryons turn out to be significant in both radiative and strong decays of the $Lambda(1405)$ resonance.
