Symmetries of Excited Heavy Baryons In The Heavy Quark And Large N_c Limit

Chi-Keung Chow, Thomas D. Cohen

Published 1999-12-16Version 1

We demonstrate in a model independent way that, in the combined heavy quark and large N_c limit, there exists a new contracted U(4) symmetry which connects orbitally excited heavy baryons to the ground states.