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$\Sigma_{b}\to\Sigma_c$ and $\Omega_b\to\Omega_c$ weak decays in the light-front quark model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-12-05 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The successful operation of LHC provides a great opportunity to study the processes where heavy baryons are involved. {In this work we mainly study} the weak transitions of ΣbΣc\Sigma_b\to \Sigma_c. Assuming the reasonable quark-diquark structure where the two light quarks constitute an axial vector, we calculate the widths of semi-leptonic decay ΣbΣceνe\Sigma_{b}\to\Sigma_c e\nu_e and non-leptonic decay modes ΣbΣc+M\Sigma_{b}\to\Sigma_c +M (light mesons) in terms of the light front quark model. We first construct the vertex function for the concerned baryons and then deduce the form factors which are related to two Isgur-Wise functions for the ΣbΣc\Sigma_{b}\to\Sigma_c transition under the heavy quark limit. Our numerical results indicate that Γ(ΣbΣceνe)\Gamma(\Sigma_{b}\to\Sigma_c e\nu_e) is about 1.38×1010s11.38\times10^{10}{\rm s}^{-1} and Γ(ΣbΣc+M)\Gamma(\Sigma_{b}\to\Sigma_c +M) is slightly below 1×1010s11\times10^{10}{\rm s}^{-1} which may be accessed at the LHCb detector. By the flavor SU(3) symmetry we estimate the rates of ΩbΩc\Omega_b\to\Omega_c. We suggest to measure weak decays of ΩbΩc\Omega_b\to\Omega_c, because Ωb\Omega_b does not decay via strong interaction, the advantage is obvious.

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@article{arxiv.1207.3477,
  title  = {$\Sigma_{b}\to\Sigma_c$ and $\Omega_b\to\Omega_c$ weak decays in the light-front quark model},
  author = {Hong-Wei Ke and Xu-Hao Yuan and Xue-Qian Li and Zheng-Tao Wei and Yan-Xi Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.3477},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

17 pages 3 figures. To avoid overlap with our previous work, we have deleted most repeated and unnecessary parts. The whole version is re-written