Electromagnetic form factors of singly charmed baryons Σc and Λc in a covariant quark-diquark model
Abstract
We present a systematic study of the spacelike electromagnetic form factors of the ground-state singly charmed baryons, Σc (Σc++,Σc+,Σc0) and Λc+, within a covariant quark-diquark model. Based on this framework, we obtain their magnetic moments as well as electric charge and magnetic moment radii. Such observables are important to understand the internal structure and the inner dynamics of these heavy baryon states. Our theoretical calculations are in qualitative agreement with available lattice QCD results of Σc++ and Σc0 baryons. We also discuss the mechanism behind the dependence of the numerical results on the charm quark and light diquark. A key finding is that the electric form factors of the singly charmed baryons fall off much more slowly with momentum transfer Q2 than that of the proton, indicating a more compact electric charge distribution, which is attributed to the heavy charm quark acting as a localized core. More importantly, we observe a striking difference in the magnetic structure: while the magnetic form factors of Σc are dominated by the light axial-vector diquark, those of Λc+ are unexpectedly governed by the charm quark due to the vanishing contribution of the scalar diquark. This highlights the decisive role of the light-diquark spin configuration in determining the magnetic properties. Finally, using an empirical asymptotic relation connecting the spacelike and timelike regions, we predict the total cross section for e+e-→ΣcΣ̅c. Our findings can be tested at existing facilities including the BESIII, Belle II and LHCb, as well as the proposed Super Tau-Charm Facility.
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BibTeX
@misc{cao2026electromagnetic,
title = {{Electromagnetic form factors of singly charmed baryons $Σ_c$ and $Λ_c$ in a covariant quark-diquark model}},
author = {Ye Cao and Cheng Chen and Dongyan Fu and Ju-Jun Xie},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2607.23943},
eprint = {2607.23943},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23943},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Electromagnetic form factors of singly charmed baryons Σ_c and Λ_c in a covariant quark-diquark model
AU - Ye Cao
AU - Cheng Chen
AU - Dongyan Fu
AU - Ju-Jun Xie
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/28
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2607.23943
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23943
AB - We present a systematic study of the spacelike electromagnetic form factors of the ground-state singly charmed baryons, Σ_c (Σ_c^++,Σ_c^+,Σ_c^0) and Λ_c^+, within a covariant quark-diquark model. Based on this framework, we obtain their magnetic moments as well as electric charge and magnetic moment radii. Such observables are important to understand the internal structure and the inner dynamics of these heavy baryon states. Our theoretical calculations are in qualitative agreement with available lattice QCD results of Σ_c^++ and Σ_c^0 baryons. We also discuss the mechanism behind the dependence of the numerical results on the charm quark and light diquark. A key finding is that the electric form factors of the singly charmed baryons fall off much more slowly with momentum transfer Q^2 than that of the proton, indicating a more compact electric charge distribution, which is attributed to the heavy charm quark acting as a localized core. More importantly, we observe a striking difference in the magnetic structure: while the magnetic form factors of Σ_c are dominated by the light axial-vector diquark, those of Λ_c^+ are unexpectedly governed by the charm quark due to the vanishing contribution of the scalar diquark. This highlights the decisive role of the light-diquark spin configuration in determining the magnetic properties. Finally, using an empirical asymptotic relation connecting the spacelike and timelike regions, we predict the total cross section for e^+e^-→Σ_cΣ̅_c. Our findings can be tested at existing facilities including the BESIII, Belle II and LHCb, as well as the proposed Super Tau-Charm Facility.
ER -