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

Abstract

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.

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