Weak decays of doubly heavy baryons: Bcc → BD(*)

The discovery of Xi(++)(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(Xi(++)(cc) -> Sigma(+) D*(+)) is an element of[0.46%, 3.33%] estimated with tau(++)(Xi cc) = 256 fs; BR(Xi(+)(cc) -> AD*(+)) is an element of[0.38%, 2.63%] and BR(Xi(+)(cc) -> Sigma D-0*(+)) is an element of [0 :45%; 3 :16%] with tau(+)(Xi cc) = 45 fs; BR(Omega(+)(cc) -> Xi D-0*(+)) is an element of [0 :27%; 1 :03%] BR(Omega(+)(cc) -> Xi D-0(+)) is an element of [0 :07%; 0 :44%] BR(Omega(+)(cc) -> Sigma D-0*(+)) is an element of [0 :06%; 0 :45%] tau Omega(+)(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.

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The study investigates weak decays of doubly charmed baryon B-cc to a light baryon B and a charm meson D-(*), finding larger branching ratios for some decays like BR(Xi(++)(cc) -> Sigma(+) D*(+)) and BR(Xi(+)(cc) -> AD*(+). The research also highlights the importance of the bow-tie mechanism in charm decays when comparing decay widths of different channels.