Hunting the doubly charmed baryon with strangeness

正In the standard model of particle physics, the baryon is formed by three quarks. Unlike the well-known proton and neutron that are composed of three light quarks, the doubly charmed baryon consists of two heavy charm quarks and a light quark.Therefore, it is expected to have different internal structures and properties, and to serve as a unique system for understanding the three-body bound system and testing the mechanism of quantum chromodynamics (QCD).     

LHCb gets closer to discovering the second doubly charmed baryon

Recently the LHCb Collaboration [1] published the results of a search for the doubly charmed baryon ■. No significant signal is seen in the mass range from 3.4 to3.8 Ge V. To put this result in context, the ■baryon was seen by LHCb in decay modes ΛcK-π^+π^+[2](2017) and ■^+cπ^+[3](2018). The weighted average of the ■^++cc mass is 3621.24±0.65 (stat.)±0.31 (syst.) MeV [3].     

First observation of the doubly charmed baryon Xi(+)(cc)

We observe a signal for the doubly charmed baryon Xi(+)(cc) in the charged decay mode Xi(+)(cc)-->Lambda(+)(c)K-pi(+) in data from SELEX, the charm hadroproduction experiment at Fermilab. We observe an excess of 15.9 events over an expected background of 6.1+/-0.5 events, a statistical significance of 6.3sigma. The observed mass of this state is 3519+/-1 MeV/c(2). The Gaussian mass width of this state is 3 MeV/c(2), consistent with resolution; its lifetime is less than 33 fs at 90% confidence.     

Weak production of charmed baryon resonances

We evaluate weak neutrino production cross sections for 7 conjectured charmed baryon resonances in the four flavour quark model. Effects resulting from the mass difference of uncharmed and charmed quarks are explicitly taken into account. The quark model results are only taken at q²=0 to determine the q² = 0 values of the invariant transition form factors. These are then continued to q ≠ 0 by suitably chosen form factors. Our numerical results are compared with the results of other calculations of weak charm production.     

Dispersion theory relations and charmed baryon couplings

Dispersion theory sum rules proposed by Atkinson have been obtained for the invariant amplitudes of the elastic pion-charmed baryon scattering process. Saturating the sum rules with the known intermediate states, we obtain the pion-charmed baryon coupling constants.     

On the lifetime of charged charmed particles first direct observation of a charmed baryon decay

Two new examples of production by neutrinos and subsequent decay of charged charmed hadrons are reported. Together with two similar events reported previously they show that the lifetime of charged charmed particles is in the neighbourhood of 5 × 10^?13 s, as expected from current theoretical models. One of the new events is identified as a baryon λ_c⁺ of mass 2.295 ± 0.015 GeV/c² which undergoes the decay process λ_c⁺ → pπ⁺K^? with a proper decay time (7.3 ± 0.1) × 10^?13 s.     

Discovery potentials of doubly charmed baryons

The existence of doubly heavy flavor baryons has not been well established experimentally so far. In this Letter we systematically investigate the weak decays of the doubly charmed baryons, Ξ~(++)_(cc)and Ξ~+_(cc), which should be helpful for experimental searches for these particles. The long-distance contributions are first studied in the doubly heavy baryon decays, and found to be significantly enhanced. Comparing all the processes, Ξ~(++)_(cc)→Λ~+_cK~-π~+π~+andΞ~+_cπ~+ are the most favorable decay modes for experiments to search for doubly heavy baryons.     

Search for diquark substructures in charmed baryon spectroscopy

We suggest that the present experimental evidence for two Λ_c⁺ mass levels may have a deep physical significance and can be taken as the first hint of (cu) and (cd) diquark substructures within the baryon.     

Belle实验发现新超子和新粲重子

过去一年里,运行在日本高能加速器研究机构的Belle实验在重子研究,尤其是在超子和粲重子研究上取得了一系列重要实验进展,包括发现了两个超子Ξ(1620)和Ω(2012)、一个粲重子Ξ_c(2930)等新的重子,并首次测量了粲重子Ξ_c衰变的绝对分支比等,为完善重子谱和深入理解强相互作用性质提供了关键的实验数据。     

Remarks on the lifetime of charmed baryonΛ c +

The interference andW-exchange contributions toΛ _c ⁺ inclusive nonleptonic decay rate are expressed in terms of matrix elements of effective fourquark operators and evaluated in the MIT bag model. It is found that although theW-exchange is not necessarily subject to helicity and color suppression, it does not suffice to explain the measured lifetime ofΛ _c ⁺. The observed semileptonic branching ratio ofΛ _c ⁺, however, requires that its inclusive decay rate be dominated by the nonspectator contribution and thus theW-exchange be substantially enhanced by some nonperturbative effects. The implication for exclusive two-body decays ofΛ _c ⁺ is briefly discussed.     

Belle实验发现新粲重子存在的迹象

粲重子是含有粲夸克的一类重子。粲重子存在很丰富的激发态,粲重子谱的研究对理解轻夸克在含重夸克系统中的动力学行为,以及检验重夸克对称性和轻夸克手征对称性具有重要意义。Λ⁺_c是质量最轻的粲重子,它是由一个粲夸克、一个上夸克和一个下夸克构成的同位旋单态。最近,日本的Belle实验利用在Υ(4S)中心质量采集的772×10⁶对B相似文献   

U-spin symmetry in doubly Cabibbo-suppressed charmed meson decays

We prove a U-spin amplitude triangle relation among doubly Cabibbo-suppressed (DCS) charmed meson decays, D⁰→K⁺π⁻,D⁰→K⁰π⁰ and D⁺_s→K⁰K⁺, congruent to an isospin relation among corresponding Cabibbo-favored (CF) decays. U-spin breaking in relative phases between CF and DCS amplitudes affects time-dependent studies of D⁰– mixing. Comparison of final state phase patterns in DCS and CF amplitude triangles, which can shed some light on these phases, is carried out in a phenomenological framework incorporating resonance contributions.     

SU(3) symmetry breaking in charmed baryon decays

We explore the breaking effects of the SU(3) flavor symmetry in the singly Cabibbo-suppressed anti-triplet charmed baryon decays of \(\mathbf{B}_c\rightarrow \mathbf{B}_n M\), with \(\mathbf{B}_c=(\Xi _c^0,\Xi _c^+,\Lambda _c^+)\) and \(\mathbf{B}_n(M)\) the baryon (pseudo-scalar) octets. We find that these breaking effects can be used to account for the experimental data on the decay branching ratios of \({\mathcal {B}}(\Lambda _c^+\rightarrow \Sigma ^{0} K^{+},\Lambda ^{0} K^{+})\) and \(R'_{K/\pi }={\mathcal {B}}(\Xi ^0_c \rightarrow \Xi ^- K^+)\)/\({\mathcal {B}}(\Xi ^0_c \rightarrow \Xi ^- \pi ^+)\). In addition, we obtain that \({\mathcal {B}}(\Xi _{c}^{0} \rightarrow \Xi ^{-} K^{+},\Sigma ^{-} \pi ^{+})=(4.6 \pm 1.7,12.8 \pm 3.1)\times 10^{-4}\), \({\mathcal {B}}(\Xi _c^0\rightarrow pK^-,\Sigma ^+\pi ^-)=(3.0 \pm 1.0, 5.2 \pm 1.6)\times 10^{-4}\) and \({\mathcal {B}}(\Xi _c^+\rightarrow \Sigma ^{0(+)} \pi ^{+(0)})=(10.3 \pm 1.7)\times 10^{-4}\), which all receive significant contributions from the breaking effects, and can be tested by the BESIII and LHCb experiments.