https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01757-6
Regular Article
Weak decays of doubly heavy baryons: four-body nonleptonic decay channels
1
School of Physics and Microelectronics, Zhengzhou University, 450001, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
2
School of Physics, China University of Mining and Technology, 221000, Xuzhou, China
Received:
10
May
2021
Accepted:
12
July
2021
Published online:
26
July
2021
The LHCb Collaboration announced the observation of doubly charmed baryon through in 2017. Since then, a series of studies of doubly heavy baryons have been presented.
was discovered through nonleptonic four-body decay mode, and experimental data have indicated that the decay modes of
are not saturated by two- and three-body intermediate states. In this work, we analyze the four-body weak decays of doubly heavy baryons
, and
. Decay amplitudes for various channels are parameterized in terms of SU(3) irreducible amplitudes. We point out that branching fractions for Cabibbo-allowed processes
,
would be helpful to search for
and
in future measurements at experimental facilities like LHC, Belle II, and CEPC.
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