Excited states of heavy baryons in the Skyrme model

Abstract

We obtain the spectra of excited heavy baryons containing one heavy quark by quantizing the exactly-solved heavy meson bound states to Skyrme soliton. The results are comparable to the recent experimental observations and quark model predictions, and are consistent with the heavy quark spin symmetry. However, somewhat large dependence of the results on the heavy quark mass strongly calls for the incorporation of the soliton-recoil effects.