Heavy Baryons and Multiquark Exotics in the Large $N_c$ limit

Abstract

In the large $N_c$ limit, one can describe normal heavy baryons $Qqq$ and heavy pentaquarks $\bar{Q}qqqq$ as bound states of heavy mesons to chiral (anti)solitons. In this picture, the strong and electromagnetic decay parameters of these hadrons can be calculated from those of the constituent heavy mesons and light baryons, while the weak decay form factors can be evaluated analytically.

Comments: 8 pages in REVTeX, no figures, to appear in the proceedings of the Baryons '95 conference at Santa Fe, New Mexico