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Weak Decays of Triply Heavy Baryons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-05-30 v1

Abstract

After the experimental establishment of doubly heavy baryons, baryons with three quarks are the last missing pieces of the lowest-lying baryon multiplets in quark model. In this work we study semileptonic and nonleptonic weak decays of triply heavy baryons, Ωccc++,Ωccb+,Ωcbb0,Ωbbb\Omega_{ccc}^{++}, \Omega_{ccb}^{+}, \Omega_{cbb}^{0}, \Omega_{bbb}^{-}. Decay amplitudes for various channels are parametrized in terms of a few SU(3) irreducible amplitudes. We point out that branching fractions for Cabibbo allowed processes, Ωccc(Ξcc++K0,Ξcc++Kπ+,Ωcc+π+,Ξc+D+,ΞcD+,ΛcD+K0,Ξc+D0π+,Ξc0D+π+)\Omega_{ccc}\to (\Xi_{cc}^{++} \overline K^0, \Xi_{cc}^{++}K^-\pi^+, \Omega_{cc}^{+}\pi^+, \Xi_{c}^+ D^+, \Xi_{c}^{\prime} D^+, \Lambda_c D^+\overline K^0, \Xi_{c}^+ D^0 \pi^+, \Xi_{c}^0 D^+\pi^+) may reach a few percents. We suggest our experimental colleagues to perform a search at hadron colliders and the electron and positron collisions in future, which will presumably lead to discoveries of triply heavy baryons and complete the baryon multiplets. Using the expanded amplitudes, we derive a number of relations for the partial widths which can be examined in future.

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@article{arxiv.1803.01476,
  title  = {Weak Decays of Triply Heavy Baryons},
  author = {Wei Wang and Ji Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.01476},
  year   = {2018}
}

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28 pages, 2 figures