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We study strong and radiative decays of excited singly heavy baryons (SHBs) using an effective chiral Lagrangian based on the diquark picture proposed in Ref. [1]. The effective Lagrangian contains a $U_A (1)$ anomaly term, which induces an inverse mass ordering between strange and non-strange SHBs with spin-parity $1/2^-$. We find that the effect of the $U_A (1)$ anomaly combined with flavor-symmetry breaking modifies the Goldberger-Treiman relation for the mass difference between the ground state $Lambda_Q (1/2^+)$ and its chiral partner $Lambda_Q (1/2^-)$, and $Lambda_Q (1/2^-) Lambda_Q (1/2^+) eta$ coupling, which results in suppression of the decay width of $Lambda_Q (1/2^-) to Lambda_Q (1/2^+) eta$. We also investigate the other various decays such as $Lambda_Q (1/2^-) to Sigma_Q (1/2^+, , 3/2^+) pi pi$, $Lambda_Q (1/2^-) to Sigma_Q (1/2^+) pi$, $Lambda_Q (1/2^-) to Sigma_Q (1/2^+, , 3/2^+) gamma$, and $Lambda_Q (1/2^-) to Lambda_Q (1/2^+) pi^0$ for wide range of mass of $Lambda_Q (1/2^-)$.
We study the isospin mass differences of singly heavy baryons, based on a pion mean-field approach. We consider both the electromagnetic interactions and the hadronic contributions that arise from the mass difference of the up and down quarks. The relevant parameters have been already fixed by the baryon octet. In addition, we introduce the strong hyperfine interactions between the light quarks inside a chiral soliton and the Coulomb interactions between the chiral soliton and a heavy quark. The numerical results are in good agreement with the experimental data. In particular, the results for the neutral mass relations, which contain only the electromagnetic contributions, are in remarkable agreement with the data, which implies that the pion mean field approach provides a good description of the singly heavy baryons.
The effective restoration of the U_{A}(1) symmetry is revisited by implementing the functional renormalization group approach combining with the 2+1 flavor Polyakov-loop quark-meson model. A temperature-dependent t Hooft term is taken to imitate the restoration of the U_{A}(1) symmetry. Order parameters, meson spectrum and mixing angles, especially the pressure and the entropy density of the system are calculated to explore the effects of different U_{A}(1) symmetry restoration patterns. We show then that the temperature for the restoration of the U_{A}(1) symmetry is much higher than that for the chiral symmetry SU_{A}(3).
The diquark is a strongly correlated quark pair that plays an important role in hadrons and hadronic matter. In order to treat the diquak as a building block of hadrons, we formulate an effective theory of diquark fields with $SU(3)_R times SU(3)_L$ chiral symmetry. We concentrate on the scalar ($0^+$) and pseudoscalar ($0^-$) diquarks and construct a linear-sigma-model Lagrangian. It is found that the effective Lagrangian contains a new type of chirally symmetric meson-diquark-diquark coupling that breaks axial $U_A(1)$ symmetry. We discuss consequences of the $U_A(1)$ anomaly term to the diquark masses as well as to the singly heavy baryon spectrum, which is directly related to the diquark spectrum. We find an inverse mass ordering between strange and nonstrange diquarks. The parameters of the effective theory can be determined by the help of lattice QCD calculations of diquarks and also from the mass spectrum of the singly heavy baryons. We determine the strength of the $U_A(1)$ anomaly term, which is found to give a significant portion of the diquark masses.
The excitation energy spectra are investigated by using diquark models in order to discuss the possibility of the existence of the diquark as a constituent of the single heavy baryons. We consider two diquark models in which the diquark is treated as a constituent of baryons together with a heavy baryon. In model A the diquark is a point-like particle, while it is a spatially extended object in model B. We determine the masses of scalar and axial vector diquarks by the ground state masses of the charmed baryons. We find that both models reproduce well the excitation energy spectra of the charmed and bottomed baryons, whereas the string tension of the confinement potential in model A should be a half of that of the charmonium and Model B overestimates the 2s excitation energy.
The partial decay widths of lowest lying negative parity baryons belonging to the 70-plet of SU(6) are analyzed in the framework of the 1/Nc expansion The channels considered are those with single pseudo-scalar meson emission. The analysis is carried out to sub-leading order in 1/Nc and to first order in SU(3) symmetry breaking. Conclusions about the magnitude of SU(3) breaking effects along with predictions for some unknown or poorly determined partial decay widths of known resonances are obtained.