Heavy flavor baryons in hypercentral model

Abstract

Heavy flavor baryons containing single and double charm (beauty) quarks with light flavor combinations are studied using the hypercentral description of the three-body problem. The confinement potential is assumed as hypercentral Coulomb plus power potential with power index ν. The ground state masses of the heavy flavor, J P = 1/2+ and 3/2+ baryons are computed for different power indices, ν starting from 0.5 to 2.0. The predicted masses are found to attain a saturated value in each case of quark combinations beyond the power index ν = 1.0.