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Color-allowed Bottom Baryon to Charmed Baryon non-leptonic Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-01-23 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study color allowed ΛbΛc(,)M\Lambda_b\to \Lambda^{(*,**)}_c M^-, ΞbΞc()M\Xi_b\to\Xi_c^{(**)} M^- and ΩbΩc()M\Omega_b\to\Omega^{(*)}_c M^- decays with M=π,K,ρ,K,D,Ds,D,Ds,a1M=\pi, K,\rho, K^*, D, D_s, D^*, D^*_s, a_1, Λc(,)=Λc\Lambda^{(*,**)}_c=\Lambda_c, Λc(2595)\Lambda_c(2595), Λc(2765)\Lambda_c(2765), Λc(2940)\Lambda_c(2940), Ξc()=Ξc,Ξc(2790)\Xi_c^{(**)}=\Xi_c, \Xi_c(2790) and Ωc()=Ωc,Ωc(3090)\Omega^{(*)}_c=\Omega_c, \Omega_c(3090), in this work. There are three types of transitions, namely Bb(3ˉf,1/2+){\cal B}_b({\bf \bar 3_f},1/2^+) to Bc(3ˉf,1/2+){\cal B}_c({\bf \bar 3_f},1/2^+), Bb(6f,1/2+){\cal B}_b({\bf 6_f},1/2^+) to Bc(6f,1/2+){\cal B}_c({\bf 6_f},1/2^+) and Bb(3ˉf,1/2+){\cal B}_b({\bf \bar 3_f},1/2^+) to Bc(3ˉf,1/2){\cal B}_c({\bf \bar 3_f},1/2^-) transitions. The bottom baryon to charmed baryon form factors are calculated using the light-front quark model. Decay rates and up-down asymmetries are predicted using na\"{i}ve factorization and can be checked experimentally. We find that in BbBcP{\cal B}_b\to {\cal B}_cP decays, rates in type~(ii) transition are smaller than those in type (i) transition, but similar to those in type (iii) transition, while in BbBcV,BcA{\cal B}_b\to{\cal B}_c V, {\cal B}_c A decays, rates in type~(ii) transition are much smaller than those in type (i) transition and are also smaller than those in type (iii) transition. For the up-down asymmetries, the signs are mostly negative, except for those in the type (ii) transition. All of these asymmetries are large in sizes. The study on these decay modes may shed light on the quantum numbers of some of the charmed baryons as the decays depend on the bottom baryon to charmed baryon form factors, which are sensitive to the configurations of the final state charmed baryons.

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@article{arxiv.1811.09265,
  title  = {Color-allowed Bottom Baryon to Charmed Baryon non-leptonic Decays},
  author = {Chun-Khiang Chua},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.09265},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

To appear in Phys. Rev. D, 42 pages, 4 figures, 16 tables