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Pion-assisted charmed dibaryon candidate

The Lambda_c(2286)-N system is studied in a chiral constituent quark model and the resulting s-wave interaction is used in separable form within three-body models of the pi-Lambda_c-N system with quantum numbers (C,I,JP)=(+1,3/2,2+). Separable interactions are also used for the dominant p-wave pion-baryon channels dominated by the Delta(1232) and Sigma_c(2520) resonances. Faddeev equations with relativistic kinematics are solved on the real axis to search for bound states and in the complex plane to search for three-body resonances. Some of the models considered generate a very narrow bound state, requiring isospin violation for its strong decay. Other models lead to a narrow resonance (Gamma < 0.4 MeV) for resonance mass below the Sigma_c(2455)-N threshold. This would be the lowest-lying C=+1 dibaryon, with mass estimated approximately as 3370+/-15 MeV.