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;and Ξ;, 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;→Λ;K;π;π;andΞ;π;are the most favorable decay modes for experiments to search for doubly heavy baryons.

Weak decays of doubly heavy baryons:B_(cc)→BD^(*)

The discovery of Ξ_(cc)^(++)has inspired new interest in studying doubly heavy baryons.In this study,the weak decays of a doubly charmed baryon B_(cc)to a light baryon B and a charm meson D^(*)(either a pseudoscalar or a vector one)are calculated.Following our previous work,we calculate the short distance contributions under the factorization hypothesis,whereas the long distance contributions are modeled as the final state interactions,which are calculated with the one particle exchange model.We find that the B_(cc)→BD^(*)decays'branching ratios are obviously larger,as they receive contributions of more polarization states.Among the decays that we investigate,the following have the largest branching fractions:BR(Ξ_(cc)^(++)→∑^(+)D^(*+))∈[0.46%,3.33%]estimated with τΞ_(cc)^(++)=256 fs;BR(Ξ_(cc)^(+)→AD^(*+))∈[0.38%,2.63%]and BR(Ξ_(cc)^(+)→∑^(0)D^(*+))∈[0.45%,3.16%]with τΞ_(cc)^(++)=45 fs;and BR(Ω_(cc)^(+)→Ξ^(0)D^(+))∈[0.27%,1.03%),BR(Ω_(cc)^(+)→∑^(0)D^(*+))∈[0.07%,0.44%],and BR(Ω_(cc)^(+)→∑^(0)D^(*+))∈[0.06%,0.45%] with τ_(Ω_(cc))^(+)=75 fs.By comparing the decay widths of pure color commensurate channels with those of pure bow-tie ones we find that the bow-tie mechanism plays an important role in charm decays.

Measurement of Ξcc++ production in pp collisions at s1/2=13 TeV

The production of ■baryons in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 13 TeV is measured in the transverse-momentum range 4<pT<15GeV/c and the rapidity range2.0<y<4.5.The data used in this measurement correspond to an integrated luminosity of 1.7fb^-1,recorded by the LHCb experiment during 2016.The ratio of the ■ production cross-section times the branching fraction of the■→∧^+cK^-π^+ π^+decay relative to the prompt ∧^+c production cross-section is found to be(2.22±0.27±0.29)×10^-4,assuming the central value of the measured lifetime,where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic.