  The space-like elastic form factors of baryons containing a heavy quark are
investigated within a light-front constituent quark model in the limit of
infinite heavy-quark mass, adopting a gaussian-like ansatz for the three-quark
wave function. The results obtained for the Isgur-Wise form factors
corresponding both to a spin-0 and a spin-1 light spectator pair are presented.
It is found that the Isgur-Wise functions depend strongly on the baryon
structure, being sharply different in case of diquark-like or collinear-type
configurations in the three-quark system. It is also shown that the
relativistic effects lead to a saturation property of the form factors as a
function of the baryon size. Our results are compared with those of different
models as well as with recent predictions from QCD sum rules and lattice QCD
simulations; the latter ones seem to suggest the dominance of collinear-type
configurations, in which the heavy-quark is sitting close to the center-of-mass
of the light quark pair.
