Production of pentaquarks with hidden charm and double strangeness in ${\Xi }_b$ and ${\Omega }_b$ decays

Abstract

Recently, several pentaquark states $P_{css}$, with global flavor $\bar{c}cssn$, have been predicted within a theoretical framework based on unitary coupled channels. We study theoretically the feasibility to observe the $P_{css}$ with $I(J^P)=\frac{1}{2}({\frac{1}{2}}^{-})$ in the decays ${\Xi }_b^0\to \eta {\eta }_c{\Xi }^0$ and ${\Omega }_b^{-}\to K^{-}{\eta }_c{\Xi }^0$. Indeed, within the model, the ${\eta }_c{\Xi }^0$ channel is the lowest mass pseudoscalar-baryon channel to which this pentaquark state couples, thus we can expect to observe its signal in the ${\eta }_c{\Xi }^0$ invariant mass distribution of the mentioned decays. We identify the dominant weak decay processes and then implement the hadronization into the different meson-baryon channels in the final state, linked by flavor symmetry. The dominant meson-baryon final state interaction is then implemented to generate the full amplitude, implicitly accounting for the dynamical emergence of the pentaquark states. We obtain a clear Breit-Wigner-like resonant signal in the spectrum of the ${\Omega }_b^{-}$ decay, exceeding that in the ${\Xi }_b^0$ decay by two to three orders of magnitude. In the case of the latter decay, the resonant state would manifest as a significant dip in the spectrum. We study the feasibility of searching for these $b$-hadron decay modes and analysing their resonant components using the current and future data samples from the LHCb experiment.

9 pages, 7 figures

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