Estimates of exchange topological contributions and $CP$-violating observables in ${\Lambda }_b\to \Lambda \varphi$ decay

Abstract

The penguin-dominated two-body weak decay of ${\Lambda }_b\to \Lambda \varphi$ is studied based on the perturbative QCD approach. In addition to the penguin emission diagrams, the penguin exchange and $W$ exchange ones are also accounted for. It is found that the penguin exchange contribution is in fact important and comparable to the penguin emission one, while the $W$ exchange contribution is highly Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) suppressed. The predicted branching ratio, $\mathcal{B}({\Lambda }_b\to \Lambda \varphi )=6.9_{-2.0-1.6}^{+1.9+1.8}\times 10^{-6}$, is larger than the previous theoretical estimates but in comparison with the data from Particle Data Group at the level of 1 standard deviation. We also explore some pertinent decay asymmetry parameters that characterize the angular decay distributions. The inclusion of the $W$ exchange contribution provides the nonzero weak phase difference,consequently, allowing us to estimate the direct $CP$ violation and true triple product asymmetries in the concerned process. The numerical results demonstrate that the direct $CP$ violation is at the level of a few percent, and the true triple product asymmetries are also predicted to be tiny, of order $10^{-2}-10^{-4}$. The observed small $CP$-violating observables have shown no significant deviations from zero. Our predictions will be subject to stringent tests with precise data from LHCb in the future.

22 pages,4 figures,12 tables, matches published version in PRD

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