Heavy-flavor baryons

TL;DR

This review discusses the properties, lifetimes, excitation spectra, and search efforts for heavy-flavor baryons, emphasizing the role of symmetries and recent experimental findings in the field.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of heavy-flavor baryons, highlighting recent experimental results and the significance of symmetries in understanding their spectra.

Findings

Summary of baryon lifetimes and spectra

Overview of pentaquark search efforts

Emphasis on symmetry importance in excitation analysis

Abstract

This is a contribution to the review "50 Years of Quantum Chromdynamics" edited by F. Gross and E. Klempt [arXiv:2212.11107], to be published in EPJC. The contribution reviews the properties of baryons with one heavy flavor: the lifetimes of ground states and the spectrum of excited states. The importance of symmetries to understand the excitation spectrum is underlined. An overview of searches for pentaquarks is given.