%0 Journal Article
%T Heavy baryon spectroscopy in the QCD string model
%A Grach
%A I. L.
%A Narodetskii
%A I. M.
%A Trusov
%A M. A.
%A Veselov
%A A. I.
%J High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
%D 2008
%I 
%X QCD string model formulated in the framework of the Field Correlator Method (FCM) in QCD is employed to calculate the masses of $\Sigma_c$, $\Xi_c$ and recently observed at Tevatron $\Sigma_b$, $\Xi_b$ baryons and their orbital excitations. The auxiliary field formalism allows one to write a simple local form of the effective Hamiltonian for the three quark system, which comprises both confinement and relativistic effects, and contains only universal parameters: the string tension $\sigma$, the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$, and the bare (current) quark masses $m_i$. We calculate the hyperfine splitting with account of the both perturbative and non--perturbative spin-spin forces between quarks in a baryon. For the orbital excitations we estimate the string correction for the confinement potential - the leading correction to the contribution of the proper inertia of the rotating string. This correction lowers the masses of the P-states by 50 MeV. We find our numerical results to be in good agreement with experimental data.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.2184