2$P$-wave charmed baryons from QCD sum rules

Abstract

We conduct an investigation on the $1P$- and $2P$-wave charmed baryons using the methods of QCD sum rules and light-cone sum rules within the framework of heavy quark effective theory. Our results suggest that the $\Lambda_c(2910)^+$, $\Lambda_c(2940)^+$, and $\Xi_c(3123)^+$ can be well interpreted as the $2P$-wave charmed baryons of $J^P=1/2^-$ and $3/2^-$, belonging to the $SU(3)$ flavor $\mathbf{\bar 3}_F$ representation. Moreover, the $\Xi_c(3123)^+$ possesses a partner state characterized by $J^P=1/2^-$, denoted as $\Xi_c(1/2^-,2P)$. Our analysis predicts its mass and width to be $m_{\Xi_c(1/2^-,2P)} - m_{\Xi_c(3123)^+} = -18\pm{7}$MeV and $\Gamma_{\Xi_c(2P,1/2^-)}=31^{+170}_{-27}$MeV, with $m_{\Xi_c(3123)^+} = 3122.9\pm{1.3}$MeV. We propose to search for it in the $\Xi_c(1/2^-,2P)\to \Sigma_c K$ decay channel.