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We describe heavy baryons as bound states of a quark and a diquark. For this purpose we derive the Faddeev equation for baryons containing a single heavy quark from a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio type of model which is appropriately extended to include also heavy quarks. The latter are treated in the heavy mass limit. The heavy baryon Faddeev equation is then solved using a static approximation for the exchanged quark.
We present a phenomenological ansatz for coupling a heavy quark with two light quarks to form a heavy baryon. The heavy quark is treated in the heavy mass limit, and the light quark dynamics is approximated by propagating scalar and axial vector 'diquarks'. The resulting effective lagrangian, which incorporates heavy quark and chiral symmetry, describes interactions of heavy baryons with Goldstone bosons in the low energy region. As an application, the Isgur--Wise form factors are estimated.