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On the four-quark operator matrix elements for the lifetime of $\Lambda_{b}$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-12-05 v3

Abstract

Heavy quark expansion can nicely explain the lifetime of Λb\Lambda_{b}. However, there still exist sizable uncertainties from the four-quark operator matrix elements of Λb\Lambda_{b} in 1/mb31/m_{b}^{3} corrections, which describe the spectator effects. In this work, these four-quark operator matrix elements are investigated using full QCD sum rules for the first time. At the QCD level, contributions from up to dimension-6 four-quark operators are considered. Our method of calculating high-dimensional operator matrix elements is promising to be used to resolve the Ωc\Omega_{c} lifetime puzzle.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2101.11874,
  title  = {On the four-quark operator matrix elements for the lifetime of $\Lambda_{b}$},
  author = {Zhen-Xing Zhao and Xiao-Yu Sun and Fu-Wei Zhang and Zhi-Peng Xing},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.11874},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

13 pages, 4 figures; version accepted by EPJC

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