Radiative decays of $P$-wave charmed baryons in the $SU(3)$ flavor $\bf6_F$ representation

Abstract

We perform a comprehensive investigation of the radiative decays of $P$-wave charmed baryons in the $SU(3)$ flavor $\mathbf{6}_F$ representation, employing the light-cone QCD sum rule approach within the framework of heavy quark effective theory. We analyze their electromagnetic transitions into ground-state charmed baryons via photon emission. When combined with the mass spectra and strong decay properties previously studied in Ref.~\cite{Yang:2021lce}, our results constitute a systematic and complete QCD sum rule analysis of the $P$-wave singly charmed baryons within the framework of heavy quark effective theory. As summarized in Table~\ref{tab:result}, several excited charmed baryons are found to possess suppressed strong decay widths, thereby rendering their radiative decay channels particularly significant for experimental identification and theoretical understanding.