Improved method to determine the $Ξ_c-Ξ_c'$ mixing

Abstract

We develop an improved method to explore the $Ξ_c- Ξ_c'$ mixing which arises from the flavor SU(3) and heavy quark symmetry breaking. In this method, the flavor eigenstates under the SU(3) symmetry are at first constructed and the corresponding masses can be nonperturbatively determined. Matrix elements of the mass operators which break the flavor SU(3) symmetry sandwiched by the flavor eigenstates are then calculated. Diagonalizing the corresponding matrix of Hamiltonian gives the mass eigenstates of the full Hamiltonian and determines the mixing. Following the previous lattice QCD calculation of $Ξ_c$ and $Ξ_c'$, and estimating an off-diagonal matrix element, we extract the mixing angle between the $Ξ_c$ and $Ξ_c'$. Preliminary numerical results for the mixing angle confirm the previous observation that such mixing is incapable to explain the large SU(3) symmetry breaking in semileptonic decays of charmed baryons.