New spectrum of negative-parity doubly charmed baryons: Possibility of two quasistable states

TL;DR

This paper predicts a richer spectrum of negative-parity doubly charmed baryons, including narrow and broad states, using unitarized chiral perturbation theory and heavy quark symmetry, guiding future experimental searches.

Contribution

It introduces a novel prediction of negative-parity doubly charmed baryons with detailed spectrum analysis based on unitarized chiral perturbation theory and heavy quark symmetry.

Findings

Two narrow $ ext{J}^P=1/2^-$ $ ext{Ω}_{cc}^P$ states predicted.

Three $ ext{Ξ}_{cc}^P$ states below 4.2 GeV, with varying widths.

Spectrum richer than that of heavy mesons.

Abstract

The discovery of $\Xi_{cc}^{++}$ by the LHCb Collaboration triggers predictions of more doubly charmed baryons. By taking into account both the $P$-wave excitations between the two charm quarks and the scattering of light pseudoscalar mesons off the ground state doubly charmed baryons, a set of negative-parity spin-1/2 doubly charmed baryons are predicted already from a unitarized version of leading order chiral perturbation theory. Moreover, employing heavy antiquark-diquark symmetry the relevant low-energy constants in the next-to-leading order are connected with those describing light pseudoscalar mesons scattering off charmed mesons, which have been well determined from lattice calculations and experimental data. Our calculations result in a spectrum richer than that of heavy mesons. We find two very narrow $J^P=1/2^-$ $\Omega_{cc}^P$, which very likely decay into $\Omega_{cc}\pi^0$ breaking isospin symmetry. In the isospin-1/2 $\Xi_{cc}^P$ sector, three states are predicted to exist below 4.2~GeV with the lowest one being narrow and the other two rather broad. We suggest to search for the $\Xi_{cc}^{P}$ states in the $\Xi_{cc}^{++}\pi^-$ mode. Searching for them and their analogues are helpful to establish the hadron spectrum.