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Radiative $\Xi_{b}^{-}\rightarrow \Xi^{-}\gamma$ decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-02-02 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

Recently, the LHCb Collaboration performed first search for the rare radiative ΞbΞγ\Xi_{b}^{-}\rightarrow \Xi^{-}\gamma decay and put an upper limit, B(ΞbΞγ)<1.3×104{\cal B}(\Xi_{b}^{-}\to \Xi^{-}\gamma) < 1.3 \times 10^{-4}, on its branching ratio. The measurement agrees well with existing theory prediction using SU(3) flavor symmetry method, but shows a slight tension with the previous prediction from light-cone sum rules. Inspired by this, we investigate this decay as well as other radiative decays of Ξb0()(Ξb)\Xi_b^{0(-)}(\Xi^{'-}_{b}) to Ξ0()\Xi^{0(-)} and Σ0()\Sigma^{0(-)} baryons using the form factors calculated from light-cone QCD sum rules in full theory. we obtain B(ΞbΞγ)=1.080.49+0.63×105 {\cal B}(\Xi_{b}^{-}\to \Xi^{-}\gamma)=1.08^{+0.63}_{-0.49} \times 10^{-5} , which lies below the upper limit set by LHCb and is consistent with flavor-symmetry driven prediction. Our predictions on other channels may be checked in experiment and by other phenomenological approaches.

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@article{arxiv.2109.09783,
  title  = {Radiative $\Xi_{b}^{-}\rightarrow \Xi^{-}\gamma$ decay},
  author = {A. R. Olamaei and K. Azizi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.09783},
  year   = {2022}
}

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