https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5532-7
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Weak decays of doubly heavy baryons: multi-body decay channels
INPAC, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, MOE Key Laboratory for Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
* e-mail: xingye_guang@sjtu.edu.cn
Received:
15
December
2017
Accepted:
6
January
2018
Published online:
22
January
2018
The newly-discovered 
decays into the 
, but the experimental data has indicated that this decay is not saturated by any two-body intermediate state. In this work, we analyze the multi-body weak decays of doubly heavy baryons 
, 
, 
, 
, 
and 
, in particular the three-body nonleptonic decays and four-body semileptonic decays. We classify various decay modes according to the quark-level transitions and present an estimate of the typical branching fractions for a few golden decay channels. Decay amplitudes are then parametrized in terms of a few SU(3) irreducible amplitudes. With these amplitudes, we find a number of relations for decay widths, which can be examined in future.
© The Author(s), 2018
