Mass spectrum, magnetic moments and Regge trajectories of ccb and cbb baryons in the nonrelativistic quark--diquark model
Abstract
In this work, we investigate the mass spectra, magnetic moments, and Regge trajectories of the triply heavy baryons ccb and cbb within a nonrelativistic constituent quark model based on the quark--diquark approximation, which reduces the three-body problem to an effective two-body system. For each baryon, all three possible diquark clusterings are considered, providing a qualitative indication of the sensitivity of the results to the quark--diquark decomposition. The model parameters are fixed by a fit to the measured Bc meson spectrum, thereby anchoring the baryon predictions to experimentally constrained inputs and establishing a consistent link between the heavy meson and baryon sectors. We obtain ground-state masses of approximately 8.0~GeV for ccb and 11.0~GeV for cbb, with radial and orbital excitation patterns in good agreement with the results reported in the literature. The computed magnetic moments of the spin-12 and spin-32 states are consistent with the results of various approaches. A radial Regge analysis in the (nr, M2) plane reveals approximately linear P-wave trajectories and mildly curved S-wave trajectories, with slope and intercept parameters that scale systematically with the heavy-quark content of the baryon. These results suggest that the nonrelativistic quark--diquark framework provides a reliable description of triply heavy baryons and serves as a useful reference for future experimental searches, particularly at LHCb.
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