Pion- and strangeness-baryon $\sigma$ terms in the extended chiral constituent quark model

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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; $B \equiv N,~\Lambda,~\Sigma,~\Xi$.

• 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.