Studying semileptonic weak baryon decays with the SU(3) flavor symmetry
Ru-Min Wang (College of Physics and Communication Electronics, JiangXi Normal University, NanChang, JiangXi 330022, China); Yuan-Guo Xu (College of Physics and Communication Electronics, JiangXi Normal University, NanChang, JiangXi 330022, China); Chong Hua (College of Physics and Communication Electronics, JiangXi Normal University, NanChang, JiangXi 330022, China); Xiao-Dong Cheng (College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, XinYang Normal University, XinYang, Henan 464000, China)
Motivated by recent anomalies in flavor changing neutral current transitions, we study semileptonic weak decays with the SU(3) flavor symmetry, where are the spin- baryons of single bottomed antitriplet , single charmed antitriplet , or light baryons octet . Using the SU(3) irreducible representation approach, we first obtain the amplitude relations among different decay modes and then predict the relevant not-yet measured observables of , , and decays. (a) We calculate the branching ratios of the and decay modes in the whole region and in the different bins by the measurement of . Many of them are obtained for the first time. In addition, the longitudinal polarization fractions and the leptonic forward-backward asymmetries of all decays are very similar to each other in certain bins due to the SU(3) flavor symmetry. (b) We analyze the upper limits of by using the experimental upper limits of and , and find the experimental upper limit of giving the effective bounds on the relevant SU(3) flavor symmetry parameters. The predictions of and will be different between the single-quark transition dominant contributions and the -exchange dominant ones. (c) As for decays, we analyze the single-quark transition contributions and the -exchange contributions by using the two experimental measurements of and , and give the branching ratio predictions by assuming either single-quark transition dominant contributions or the -exchange dominant contributions. According to our predictions, some observables are accessible to the experiments at BESIII, LHCb and Belle-II.
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