2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/96772Mass differences of the flavor octet and decuplet ground-state baryons are studied in the perturbative chiral quark model. We present a way to understand the nontrivial spin- and flavor dependent mass differences, where both pseudoscalar mesons and gluons play a significant role.24 pages, 3 figuresHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyNuclear TheoryGround-state baryon masses in the perturbative chiral quark modeltext