Three-Body Decay of $\Lambda_c^{*} (2595)$ and $\Lambda_c^{*} (2625)$ with Consideration of $\Sigma_c(2455)\pi$ and $\Sigma_c^*(2520)\pi$ in Intermediate States

Abstract

Three-body decay of charmed baryons $\Lambda^*_c(2595)$ and $\Lambda^*_c(2625)$ into $\Lambda_c \pi \pi$ are studied with effective Lagrangians in which the coupling constants are extracted from the non-relativistic quark model. We take into account sequential processes going through $\Sigma_c (2455)$ and $\Sigma^*_c (2520)$ in intermediate states. The total decay widths are sensitive to the coupling of $\Lambda^*_c$ with $\Sigma_c \pi$ open channel and to $\Sigma^*_c \pi$ closed channel. We find that $\Lambda_c^*(2595)$ and $\Lambda_c^*(2625)$ with $\lambda$ mode assignment can explain nicely the experimental data. We also show invariant mass distributions of $\Lambda_c^*(2595)$ and $\Lambda_c^*(2625)$ decays which are significantly different for various quark configurations.