https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09239-w
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Weak decays of bottom-charm baryons: 
1
Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics, Nanjing Normal University, 210023, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
2
School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, 730000, Lanzhou, China
3
Theoretische Physik 1, Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät, Universität Siegen, 57068, Siegen, Germany
4
Lanzhou Center for Theoretical Physics, Lanzhou University, 730000, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
5
Frontier Science Center for Rare Isotopes, Lanzhou University, 730000, Lanzhou, China
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Center for High Energy Physics, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China
Received:
31
January
2021
Accepted:
10
May
2021
Published online:
23
June
2021
After the discovery of the double-charm baryon 
by LHCb, one of the most important topics is to search for the bottom-charm baryons which contain a b quark, a c quark and a light quark. In this work, we study the two-body non-leptonic weak decays of a bottom-charm baryon into a spin-1/2 bottomed baryon and a light pseudoscalar meson with the short-distance contributions calculated under the factorization hypothesis and the long-distance contributions considering the final-state-interaction effects. The branching fractions of all fifty-seven decay channels are estimated. The results indicate that 
, 
and 
decay modes have relatively large decay rates and thus could be used to experimentally search for the bottom-charm baryons. The topological diagrams and the SU(3) symmetry of bottom-charm baryon decays are discussed.
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