Magnetic moments of the low lying and charmed spin 1 2 + and spin 3 2 + baryons have been calculated in the SU(4) chiral constituent quark model (χCQM) by including the contribution from cc fluctuations. Explicit calculations have been carried out for the contribution coming from the valence quarks, "quark sea" polarizations and their orbital angular momentum. The implications of such a model have also been studied for magnetic moments of the low lying spin 3 2 + → 1 2 + and 1 2 + → 1 2 + transitions as well as the transitions involving charmed baryons. The predictions of χCQM not only give a satisfactory fit for the baryons where experimental data is available but also show improvement over the other models. In particular, for the case of µ(p), µ(Σ + ), µ(Ξ 0 ), µ(Λ), Coleman-Glashow sum rule for the low lying spin 1 2 + baryons and µ(∆ + ), µ(Ω − ) for the low lying spin 3 2 + baryons, we are able to achieve an excellent agreement with data. For the spin 1 2 + and spin 3 2 + charmed baryon magnetic moments, our results are consistent with the predictions of the QCD sum rules, Light Cone sum rules and Spectral sum rules. For the cases where "light" quarks dominate in the valence structure, the sea and orbital contributions are found to be fairly significant however, they cancel in the right direction to give the correct magnitude of the total magnetic moment. On the other hand, when there is an excess of "heavy" quarks, the contribution of the "quark sea" is almost negligible, for example, µ(Ω 0 c )

The effects of SU(3) symmetry breaking and configuration mixing have been investigated for the weak vector and axial-vector form factors in the chiral constituent quark model (χCQM) for the strangeness changing as well as strangeness conserving semi-leptonic octet baryon decays in the nonperturbative regime. The results are in good agreement with existing experimental data and also show improvement over other phenomenological models.

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The weak vector and axial-vector form factors have been investigated for the semi-leptonic octet baryon decays in the chiral constituent quark model with configuration mixing (χCQM config ). The effects of SU(3) symmetry breaking and configuration mixing have also been investigated and the results are not only in good agreement with existing experimental data but also show improvement over other phenomenological models.