E2 Strength in the Radiative Charmed Baryon Decay

Abstract

The radiative decay ${\Sigma }_Q^{\ast }\to {\Lambda }_Q\gamma$ can have both magnetic dipole (M1) and electric quadrupole (E2) components. In the heavy quark limit $M_Q\to \infty$ the transition arises from the spin of the light degrees of freedom changing from $s_l=1$ to $s_l=0$ and hence the E2 contribution vanishes. We compute the leading contribution to the E2 strength in chiral perturbation theory and find that the amplitude is enhanced by a small energy denominator in the chiral limit. This enhancement essentially compensates for the $1/M_c$ suppression that is present in the charm system. We find a mixing ratio of order a few percent dependent upon the ${\Sigma }_c^{\ast }--{\Sigma }_c$ spin symmetry breaking mass difference. The analogous quantity in the b-baryon sector is smaller by a factor of $\sim M_c/M_b$.

10 pages, 2 uuencoded figures included, uses harvmac and epsf, CMU-HEP 94-25

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