Static-static-light baryonic potentials

Abstract

We determine doubly heavy baryonic potentials as a function of the distance between the two static sources, coupled to a light relativistic quark, for different quantum numbers. We use the variational method to compute the ground state and the first two excitations. These can be used as an input to nonrelativistic models or to NRQCD calculations of properties of doubly heavy baryons. We compare our findings with a factorization model. We employ all-to-all propagator methods, improved by an additional hopping parameter expansion and Wuppertal smearing on QCDSF configurations with two sea quark flavors.