B meson decays to baryons in the diquark model
Dec, 2001Citations per year
Abstract:
We study B meson decays to two charmless baryons in the diquark model, including strong and electroweak penguins as well as the tree operators. It is shown that penguin operators can enhance \bar{B} \to \Bb_s \bar{\Bb} considerably, but affect \bar{B} \to \Bb_1 \bar{\Bb}_2 only slightly, where \Bb_{(1,2)} and \Bb_s are non-strange and strange baryons, respectively. The dependence of the decay rates due to tree-penguin interference is illustrated. In principle, some of the \Bb_s \bar{\Bb} modes could dominate over \Bb_1 \bar{\Bb}_2 for , but in general the effect is milder than their mesonic counterparts. This is because the operator can only produce vector but not scalar diquarks, while the opposite is true for and . Predictions from diquark model are compared to those from the sum rule calculation. The decays \bar{B} \to \Bb_s \bar{\Bb}_s and inclusive baryonic decays are also discussed.Note:
- 9 pages, 6 figures, Revtex
- B: hadronic decay
- hyperon
- quark: diquark
- effect: penguin
- electromagnetic interaction
- strong interaction
- tree approximation: interference
- decay: inclusive reaction
- decay: exclusive reaction
- B: width
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