摘要: The m asses of excited heavy m esons are studied with sum rules in the heavy quark e#11;ective theory.A setofinterpolating currentscreating (annihilating) excited heavy m esonswith arbitrary spin and parity are proposed and their propertiesarediscussed.Num ericalresultsattheleading orderofthe O (1=m Q ) expansion are obtained for the lowest doublets (0+ ;1+ ) and(1+ ;2+ ).