Doubly heavy baryons with chiral partner structure

TL;DR

This paper investigates the spectrum and decay properties of doubly heavy baryons using a chiral effective model, highlighting mass splittings and decay channels related to chiral symmetry breaking.

Contribution

It introduces a chiral partner structure for doubly heavy baryons and estimates their mass splittings and decay mechanisms, extending concepts from heavy-light meson physics.

Findings

Mass splitting of chiral partners is about 430 MeV for non-strange and 350 MeV for strange baryons.

Decay from negative to positive parity baryons is governed by the generalized Goldberger-Treiman relation.

The dominant decay mode for strange doubly heavy baryons involves eta-pi0 mixing leading to isospin violation.

Abstract

The spectrum and dominant strong decay properties of the doubly heavy baryons are revisited by using a chiral effective model with chiral partner structure. By regarding the doubly heavy baryons in the ground states and light angular momentum $j_l = 1/2$ sector of the first orbitally excited states as chiral partners to each other, we estimate the mass splitting of the chiral partners which arises from the spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry to be about $430$ MeV for baryons including an unflavored light quark and about $350$ MeV for that including a strange quark. We point out that, similar to the heavy-light meson sector, the intermultiplet decay from a baryon with negative parity to its chiral partner and a pion is determined by the mass splitting throught the generalized Goldberger-Treiman relation. Furthermore, the isospin violating decay of $\Omega_{cc}$ baryon, $((1/2)^-, (3/2)^-)_s \to ((1/2)^+, (3/2)^+)_s + \pi^0$ through the $\eta$-$\pi^0$ mixing is the dominant decay channel of the doubly heavy baryons including a strange quark.