The study of weak decays of doubly charmed baryons within rescattering mechanism

• Published in: arXiv.org 2024-03
• Main Authors: Xiao-Hui, Hu, Cai Ping Jia, Fu Sheng Yu, Ye Xing
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Baryons; Charm (particle physics); Decay; Leptons; Mathematical analysis
• ISSN: 2331-8422

The doubly charmed baryon \(\Xi_{cc}^{++}\) has been observed by LHCb through the non-leptonic decay modes of \(\Xi_{cc}^{++}\to\Lambda_{c}^{+}K^{-}\pi^{+}\pi^{+}\) and \(\Xi_{c}^{+}\pi^{+}\) in 2017. After that, the experimentalists turn their attention to finding other doubly charmed baryons \(\Xi_{cc}^{+}\) and \(\Omega_{cc}^{+}\). In this work, we investigate the nonleptonic weak decays of doubly charmed baryons \({\cal B}_{cc}\to{\cal B}_{c}P\), where \({\cal B}_{cc}\) denotes the doubly charmed baryons \((\Xi_{cc}^{++},\Xi_{cc}^{+},\Omega_{cc}^{+})\), \({\cal B}_{c}\) represents the singly charmed baryons \(({\cal B}_{\bar{3}},{\cal B}_{6})\) and \(P\) is the light pseudoscalar. For these non-leptonic decay modes, their short-distance contributions can be accurately estimated in theoretical calculations. However, dealing with the long-distance contributions for final-state-interaction effects is challenging. To address this, we use the rescattering mechanism to calculate the long-distance contributions and first derive the whole hadronic loop contributions for these two-body nonleptonic decays of doubly charmed baryons. Then the decay widths and branching ratios of the 45 nonleptonic decays of doubly charmed baryon are predicted. Among that, the ratio of the branching ratios \({\cal RB}=\frac{{\cal B}(\Xi_{cc}^{++}\to\Xi_{c}^{\prime+}\pi^{+})}{{\cal B}(\Xi_{cc}^{++}\to\Xi_{c}^{+}\pi^{+})}=1.15\pm0.45\) is consistent with the experimental results within statistical errors.