A Phenomenological Analysis of Heavy Hadron Lifetimes

Abstract

A phenomenological analysis of lifetimes of bottom and charmed hadrons within the framework of the heavy quark expansion is performed. The baryon matrix element is evaluated using the bag model and the nonrelativistic quark model. We find that bottom-baryon lifetimes follow the pattern $\tau ({\Omega }_b)\simeq \tau ({\Xi }_b^{-})>\tau ({\Lambda }_b)\simeq \tau ({\Xi }_b^0)$. However, neither the lifetime ratio $\tau ({\Lambda }_b)/\tau (B_d)$ nor the absolute decay rates of the ${\Lambda }_b$ baryon and $B$ mesons can be explained. One way of solving both difficulties is to allow the presence of linear $1/m_Q$ corrections by scaling the inclusive nonleptonic width with the fifth power of the hadron mass $m_{H_Q}$ rather than the heavy quark mass $m_Q$. The hierarchy of bottom baryon lifetimes is dramatically modified to $\tau ({\Lambda }_b)>\tau ({\Xi }_b^{-})>\tau ({\Xi }_b^0)>\tau ({\Omega }_b)$: The longest-lived ${\Omega }_b$ among bottom baryons in the OPE prescription now becomes shortest-lived. The replacement of $m_Q$ by $m_{H_Q}$ in nonleptonic widths is natural and justified in the PQCD-based factorization approach formulated in terms of hadron-level kinematics. For inclusive charmed baryon decays, we argue that since the heavy quark expansion does not converge, local duality cannot be tested in this case. We show that while the ansatz of substituting the heavy quark mass by the hadron mass provides a much better description of the charmed-baryon lifetime {\it ratios}, it appears unnatural and unpredictive for describing the {\it absolute} inclusive decay rates of charmed baryons, contrary to the bottom case.

35 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. The CDF result on the lifetime ratio of Lambda_b and B_d is discussed

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