Heavy hadrons in the large Nc limit

Citation

Chow, Chi-Keung (1995) Heavy hadrons in the large Nc limit. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/7qz6-sg17. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-09172007-144702

Abstract

NOTE: Text or symbols not renderable in plain ASCII are indicated by [...]. Abstract is included in .pdf document. In the heavy quark and large [...] limit, heavy baryons can be identified as bound states of heavy mesons and light baryons. The binding potential can be calculated under chiral perturbation theory, and is simple harmonic when [...]. The spectra and properties of these bound states agree reasonably well with the observed heavy baryons. In this framework, some non-perturbative quantities, like the orbital excitation energy and the slope of the Isgur-Wise form factor, can be evaluated. Moreover, the same universal Isgur-Wise form factor describes the semileptonic decays [...] and [...]. The formalism can also be used to study the spectra, stabilities and decay modes of exotic multiquark states.

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