We revisit the mass splittings of SU(3) baryons, taking into account the second-order effects of isospin and SU(3) flavor symmetry breakings within the framework of a chiral soliton model. The masses of the baryon decuplet turn out to be improved, compared to those with the first-order corrections. The mass of the N^* as a member of the baryon antidecuplet is obtained as M_{ n^*}=1687 MeV, which is in agreement with the recent experimental data. The pion-nucleon sigma term becomes \Sigma_{ \pi N}=(50.5\pm 5.4) MeV.
Categories: hep-ph nucl-th