
The width of a recently discovered excited charmed-strange baryon, a candidate for a state $��_c^*$ with spin 3/2, is calculated. In the absence of configuration mixing between the ground-state (spin-1/2) charmed-strange baryon $��_c^{(a)}$ and the spin-1/2 state $��_c^{(s)}$ lying about 95 MeV above it, one finds $\tilde ��(��^*_c \to ��_c^{(a)} ��) = (3/4) \tilde ��(��^* \to ����)$ and $\tilde ��(��^*_c \to ��_c^{(s)} ��) = (1/4) \tilde ��(��^* \to ����)$, where the tilde denotes the partial width with kinematic factors removed. Assuming a kinematic factor for P-wave decay of $p_{\rm cm}^3$, one predicts $��(��^*_c \to ��_c^{(a)} ��) = 2.3$ MeV, while the $��^*_c \to ��_c^{(s)} ��$ channel is closed. Some suggestions are given for detecting the $��_c^*$, the spin-3/2 charmed nonstrange baryon, and the $��_c^*$, the spin-3/2 charmed doubly-strange baryon.
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High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), FOS: Physical sciences
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), FOS: Physical sciences
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