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Revisiting the transition $\Xi^{+}_{cc}\to\Xi^{(')+}_c$ to understand the data from LHCb

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-11-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The LHCb collaboration newly measured the decay rate of doubly charmed baryon Ξcc++Ξ+π+\Xi^{++}_{cc}\to\Xi^{'+}\pi^+ and a ratio of its branching fraction with respect to that of the decay Ξcc++Ξ+π+\Xi^{++}_{cc}\to\Xi^{+}\pi^+ is reported as 1.41±0.17±0.101.41\pm 0.17\pm 0.10. This result conflicts with the theoretical predictions made by several groups. In our previous work, following the prescription given in early literature where the usus diquark in Ξc+\Xi^{+}_{c} is assumed to be a scalar whereas in Ξc+\Xi^{'+}_{c} is a vector i.e. the spin-flavor structure of Ξc+\Xi^{+}_{c} is [us]0c[us]_0 c and that of Ξc+\Xi^{'+}_{c} is [us]1c[us]_1 c, we studied the case of Ξcc++Ξ()+\Xi^{++}_{cc}\to\Xi^{(')+} with the light front quark model. Numerically we obtained Γ(Ξcc++Ξ+π+)/Γ(Ξcc++Ξ+π+)=0.56±0.18\Gamma(\Xi^{++}_{cc}\to\Xi^{'+}\pi^+)/\Gamma(\Xi^{++}_{cc}\to\Xi^{+}\pi^+)=0.56\pm0.18 which is about half of the data. While abandoning the presupposition, we suppose the spin-flavor structure of usus in Ξc+\Xi^{+}_{c} may be a mixture of scalar and vector, namely the spin-flavor function of Ξc+\Xi^{+}_{c} could be cosθ[us]0[c]+sinθ[us]1[c]{\rm cos}\theta\, [us]_{0}[c]+{\rm sin}\theta\, [us]_{1}[c]. An alternative combination sinθ[us]0[c]+cosθ[us]1[c]-{\rm sin}\theta\,[us]_{0}[c]+{\rm cos}\theta\, [us]_{1}[c] would correspond to Ξc+\Xi^{'+}_{c}. Introducing the mixing mechanism the ratio Γ(Ξcc++Ξ+π+)/Γ(Ξcc++Ξ+π+)\Gamma(\Xi^{++}_{cc}\to\Xi^{'+}\pi^+)/\Gamma(\Xi^{++}_{cc}\to\Xi^{+}\pi^+) depends on the mixing angle θ\theta. With the mixing scenario, the theoretical prediction on the ratio between the transition rate of Ξcc+Ξc+\Xi^{+}_{cc}\to\Xi^{'+}_c and that of Ξcc+Ξc+\Xi^{+}_{cc}\to\Xi^{+}_c can coincide with the data as long as θ=16.27±2.30\theta=16.27^\circ\pm2.30^\circ or 85.54±2.3085.54^\circ\pm2.30^\circ is set. Definitely, more precise measurements on other decay portals of Ξcc+\Xi^{+}_{cc} are badly needed for testing the mixing mechanism and further determining the mixing angle.

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@article{arxiv.2203.10352,
  title  = {Revisiting the transition $\Xi^{+}_{cc}\to\Xi^{(')+}_c$ to understand the data from LHCb},
  author = {Hong-Wei Ke and Xue-Qian Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.10352},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

14 pages, 5 figures and 5 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1912.01435