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Revisit the diquark of $\Lambda_c$ in the $\Lambda_c\to \Lambda K^+$ and $\Lambda_c\to \Sigma^0 K^+$ processes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-07-08 v1

Abstract

The spatial distributions of [ud][ud] diquark and heavy-light diquark of the SU(3)-flavor antitriplet charmed baryons are investigated by the two singly Cabibbo-suppressed hadronic weak decays, ΛcΛK+\Lambda_c\to \Lambda K^+ and ΛcΣ0K+\Lambda_c\to \Sigma^0 K^+ within the nonrelativistic constituent quark model. The above two spatial distributions are reflected by the two parameters αρ\alpha_\rho and αλ\alpha_\lambda, which are the harmonic oscillator strength parameters of the charmed baryons. These two parameters obtain strong constraints from the decay widths of ΛcΛK+\Lambda_c\to \Lambda K^+ and ΛcΣ0K+\Lambda_c\to \Sigma^0 K^+. The larger the harmonic oscillator parameter is, the more compact the spatial distribution will become. The current αρ\alpha_\rho and αλ\alpha_\lambda indicate that neither the light diquark nor the heavy-light diquark turns out to favor a compact structure. In addition, some selection rules, including the ``Λ\Lambda selection rule'', can be useful for the search of excited baryons in the heavy-flavor baryon hadronic weak decays.

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@article{arxiv.2507.04393,
  title  = {Revisit the diquark of $\Lambda_c$ in the $\Lambda_c\to \Lambda K^+$ and $\Lambda_c\to \Sigma^0 K^+$ processes},
  author = {Peng-Yu Niu and Qian Wang and Qiang Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.04393},
  year   = {2025}
}

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14 pages, 4 figures

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