Deciphering triply heavy baryons in terms of QCD sum rules

The mass spectra of ground-state triply heavy baryons are systematically unscrambled and computed in QCD sum rules. With a tentative (QQ)-(Q') configuration for QQQ', the interpolating currents representing the triply heavy baryons are proposed. Technically, contributions of the operators up to dimension six are included in operator product expansion (OPE). The numerical results are presented in comparison with other theoretical predictions. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.