%0 Journal Article %T Photoproduction of excited baryons in the 1 /Nc expansion of QCD %A Scoccola %A N. N. %J Brazilian Journal of Physics %D 2008 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0103-97332008000400013 %X we present results for the photoproduction helicity amplitudes of excited baryons obtained in the context of the 1 /nc expansion of qcd. the results show that, in order to get a satisfactory description of the observed photoproduction amplitudes, the sub-leading corrections in 1/nc are important. we also find that, while one-body effective operators are dominant, there is some evidence for the need of two-body effects which, in general, are not included in quark model calculations. %K excited baryon photoproduction %K large nc qcd. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-97332008000400013&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en