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Two-body Baryonic $B_{u,d,s}$ and $B_c$ to Charmless Final State Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-08-31 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study the rates and direct CP violations of two-body baryonic Bˉu,d,sBB\bar B_{u,d,s}\to {{\rm\bf B}\overline{\rm\bf B}}' and BcBBB^-_c\to{{\rm\bf B}\overline{\rm\bf B}}' decays, where the final state baryons include low-lying octet and decuplet baryons. We incorporate topological amplitude formalism and the factorization approach. Asymptotic relations at large mbm_b are used to simplify decay amplitudes. Using the most up-to-date data on Bˉ0ppˉ\bar B^0\to p\bar p and BΛpˉB^-\to\Lambda\bar p decay rates as inputs, rates and direct CP violations of Bˉu,d,sBB\bar B_{u,d,s}\to {{\rm\bf B}\overline{\rm\bf B}}' decays are revised and predicted. It is interesting that the results on rates satisfy all existing experimental bounds and some are close to the bounds. Factorization diagrams contribute to penguin-exchange, exchange, annihilation and penguin-annihilation amplitudes. Although the resulting penguin-exchange factorization amplitudes are sizable, the rest suffer from severe chiral suppression and are sensitive to non-factorizable contributions. The Bˉsppˉ\bar B_s\to p\bar p decay rate predicted in factorization calculation is very rare, but it can be enhanced by including non-factorizable contributions. The case where the rate is enhanced to saturate the present experimental bound is discussed. As annihilation modes BcBBB^-_c\to{{\rm\bf B}\overline{\rm\bf B}}' decays from factorization calculation are found to be very rare, but they can be enhanced by including non-factorizable contributions as well. Small direct CP violations of pure penguin modes in ΔS=1\Delta S=-1 Bˉu,d,sBB\bar B_{u,d,s}\to{{\rm\bf B}\overline{\rm\bf B}}' decays are robust predictions of the SM, while vanishing direct CP violations of exchange modes in Bˉu,d,sBB\bar B_{u,d,s}\to{{\rm\bf B}\overline{\rm\bf B}}' decays and in all BcBBB^-_c\to{{\rm\bf B}\overline{\rm\bf B}}' decay modes are null tests of the SM.

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@article{arxiv.2205.14626,
  title  = {Two-body Baryonic $B_{u,d,s}$ and $B_c$ to Charmless Final State Decays},
  author = {Chun-Khiang Chua},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.14626},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

59 pages, revised and to appear in Phys. Rev. D