Doubly-Heavy Baryon Weak Decays: ${\Xi }_{bc}^0\to p{K}^{-}$ and ${\Xi }_{cc}^{+}\to {\Sigma }_c^{++}(2520)K^{-}$

Abstract

Doubly-heavy baryons, with two heavy and one light quarks, are expected to exist in QCD and their masses have been predicted in the quark model. However their existence is not well established so far in experiment. In this work, we explore the possibility of searching for ${\Xi }_{bc}$ and ${\Xi }_{cc}^{+}$ in the $W$-exchange processes, ${\Xi }_{bc}^0\to p{K}^{-}$ and ${\Xi }_{cc}^{+}\to {\Sigma }_c^{++}(2520)K^{-}$. On the basis of perturbative calculations, we estimate the branching ratio of the first decay as $\mathcal{B}\mathcal{R}({\Xi }_{bc}^0\to p^{+}{K}^{-})\approx 3.21\times {\mathcal{R}}_f^2\times {\mathcal{R}}_{\tau }\times 10^{-7}$, where ${\mathcal{R}}_f$ (${\mathcal{R}}_{\tau }$) are the ratios of the decay constants (lifetimes) of ${\Xi }_{bc}^0$ and ${\Lambda }_b^0$. The branching ratio of ${\Xi }_{cc}^{+}\to {\Sigma }_c^{++}(2520)K^{-}$ is related to that of ${\Lambda }_c^{+}\to {\Delta }^{++}{K}^{-}$, and thereby a conjectured topology analysis leads to the range for the branching ratio as: $\mathcal{B}\mathcal{R}({\Xi }_{cc}^{+}\to {\Sigma }_c^{++}(2520)K^{-})\in \left[0.36\%,1.80\%\right]$. The decay ${\Xi }_{cc}^{+}\to {\Sigma }_c^{++}(2520)K^{-}$ would be reconstructed in the ${\Lambda }_c^{+}{K}^{-}{\pi }^{+}$ final state which is easy to access even at a hadron collider. Based on the two facts that abundant heavy quarks can be produced at a hadron collider like LHC, and the branching ratios of ${\Xi }_{bc}^0\to p{K}^{-}$ and ${\Xi }_{cc}^{+}\to {\Sigma }_c^{++}(2520)K^{-}$ are sizable, we urge our experimental colleagues to perform a search at LHCb. This will presumably lead to the discovery of the ${\Xi }_{bc}$ and ${\Xi }_{cc}^{+}$ , and precision measurements of the branching ratios in the future are helpful to investigate their decay mechanism.

arXiv comment10 pages; 2 figures; version published on Physics Letters B

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