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Masses of doubly and triply charmed baryons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-11-05 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

Until now, the first reported doubly charmed baryon Ξcc+(3520)\Xi_{cc}^{+}(3520) is still a puzzle. It was discovered and confirmed by SELEX collaboration, but not confirmed by LHCb, BABAR, BELLE, FOCUS, or any other collaboration. In the present paper, by employing Regge phenomenology, we first express the mass of the ground state (LL=0) doubly charmed baryon Ωcc+\Omega_{cc}^{*+} as a function of masses of the well established light baryons and singly charmed baryons. Inserting the recent experimental data, the mass of Ωcc+\Omega_{cc}^{*+} is given to be 3809±\pm36 MeV, which is independent of any unobservable parameters. Then, with the quadratic mass relations, we calculate the masses of the ground state triply charmed baryon Ωccc++\Omega_{ccc}^{++} and doubly charmed baryons Ξcc()++\Xi_{cc}^{(*)++}, Ξcc()+\Xi_{cc}^{(*)+}, and Ωcc+\Omega_{cc}^{+} (the mass of Ξcc+\Xi_{cc}^{+} is determined as 352040+41^{+41}_{-40} MeV, which agrees with the mass of Ξcc+(3520)\Xi_{cc}^{+}(3520)). The isospin splitting MΞcc++MΞcc+=0.4±0.3M_{\Xi_{cc}^{++}} - M_{\Xi_{cc}^{+}} = 0.4 \pm 0.3 MeV. After that, masses of the orbitally excited (LL=1,2,3) doubly and triply charmed baryons are estimated. The results are reasonable comparing with those extracted in many other approaches. We suggest more efforts to study doubly and triply charmed baryons both theoretically and experimentally, not only for the abundance of baryon spectra, but also for numerically examining whether the linear mass relations or the quadratic mass relations are realized in nature. Our predictions are useful for the discovery of unobserved doubly and triply charmed baryon states and the JPJ^P assignment of these states.

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@article{arxiv.1503.05184,
  title  = {Masses of doubly and triply charmed baryons},
  author = {Ke-Wei Wei and Bing Chen and Xin-Heng Guo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.05184},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages, 5 tables, version published in PRD