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In this contribution, we present a study of ground- and excited-state $Omega_c$ and $Omega_b$ baryons consisting of two strange quarks and a heavy charm or bottom quark. An analysis in the quark model shows that the recently observed excited $Omega_c$ and $Omega_b$ states can be interpreted in terms of $lambda$-mode excitations.
A symmetry-preserving truncation of the strong-interaction bound-state equations is used to calculate the spectrum of ground-state $J=1/2^+$, $3/2^+$ $(qq^prime q^{primeprime})$-baryons, where $q, q^prime, q^{primeprime} in {u,d,s,c,b}$, their first positive-parity excitations and parity partners. Using two parameters, a description of the known spectrum of 39 such states is obtained, with a mean-absolute-relative-difference between calculation and experiment of 3.6(2.7)%. From this foundation, the framework is subsequently used to predict the masses of 90 states not yet seen empirically.
We use a symmetry-preserving truncation of meson and baryon bound-state equations in quantum field theory in order to develop a unified description of systems constituted from light- and heavy-quarks. In particular, we compute the spectrum and leptonic decay constants of ground-state pseudoscalar- and vector-mesons: $q^prime bar q$, $Q^prime bar Q$, with $q^prime,q=u,d,s$ and $Q^prime,Q = c,b$; and the masses of $J^P=3/2^+$ baryons and their first positive-parity excitations, including those containing one or more heavy quarks. This Poincare-covariant analysis predicts that such baryons have a complicated angular momentum structure. For instance, the ground states are all primarily $S$-wave in character, but each possesses $P$-, $D$- and $F$-wave components, with the $P$-wave fraction being large in the $qqq$ states; and the first positive-parity excitation in each channel has a large $D$-wave component, which grows with increasing current-quark mass, but also exhibits features consistent with a radial excitation. The configuration space extent of all such baryons decreases as the mass of the valence-quark constituents increases.
The first observation of the $Omega_b^-toXi_c^+ K^- pi^-$ decay is reported using proton-proton collision data at centre-of-mass energies of $7$, $8$ and $13,mathrm{TeV}$ collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $9,mathrm{fb}^{-1}$. Four excited $Omega_c^0$ baryons are observed in the $Xi_c^+ K^-$ mass projection of the $Omega_b^-toXi_c^+ K^- pi^-$ decays with significance exceeding five standard deviations. Their relative production rates, masses and natural widths are measured, and a test of spin hypotheses is performed. Moreover, the branching ratio of $Omega_b^-toXi_c^+ K^- pi^-$ is measured relative to the $Omega_b^-to Omega_c^0 pi^-$ decay mode and a precise measurement of the $Omega_b^-$ mass of $6044.3 pm 1.2 pm 1.1^{,+0.19}_{,-0.22},mathrm{MeV}$ is obtained.
The task of mapping and explaining the spectrum of baryons and the structure of these states in terms of quarks and gluons is a longstanding challenge in hadron physics, which is likely to persist for another decade or more. We review the progress made in this topic using a functional method based on Dyson-Schwinger equations. This framework provides a non-perturbative, Poincare-covariant continuum formulation of Quantum Chromodynamics which is able to extract novel insight on baryon properties since the physics at the hadron level is directly related with the underlying quark-gluon substructure, via convolution of Green functions.
The possibility to have diquark configuration in heavy baryons, such as Lambda_c and Lambda_b, is examined by a nonrelativistic potential model with a heavy quark and a light scalar diquark. Assuming that the Lambda_c and Lambda_b baryons are composed of the heavy quark and the point-like scalar-isoscalar ud diquark, we solve the two-body Schrodinger equation with the Coulomb plus linear potential and obtain the energy spectra for the heavy baryons. Contrary to our expectation, it is found that the potential determined by the quarkonium spectra fails to reproduce the excitation spectra of the Lambda_c and Lambda_b in the quark-diquark picture, while the Lambda_c and Lambda_b spectra is reproduced with a half strength of the confinement string tension than for the quarkonium. The finite size effect of the diquark is also examined and it is found that introduction of a finite size diquark would resolve the failure of the spectrum reproduction. The Xi_c excitation energy is also calculated and is found to be smaller than Lambda_c in the quark-diquark model. This is not consistent with the experimental observation.