Exclusive nonleptonic Bc-meson decays to S-wave charmonium states

TL;DR

This paper analyzes exclusive nonleptonic Bc-meson decays to S-wave charmonium states using a relativistic quark model, predicting branching fractions and ratios consistent with experimental data and other models.

Contribution

It introduces a relativistic independent quark model to calculate form factors and branching ratios for Bc decays to excited charmonium states, providing predictions aligned with recent LHCb measurements.

Findings

Predicted branching fractions are within experimental detection range.

Ratios of decay rates agree with LHCb data.

The model effectively describes nonleptonic Bc decays.

Abstract

We study the exclusive two-body nonleptonic $B_c\to X_{c\bar{c}}M$ decays, where $X_{c\bar{c}}$ is either a ground(1S) or a radially excited (2S or 3S) charmonium and $M$ is a pseudoscalar $(P)$ or a vector $(V)$ meson. We consider here three categories of decays: $B_c \to PP, PV, VP$ decays within the framework of relativistic independent quark(RIQ) model based on a flavor-independent interaction potential in scalar-vector harmonic form. Using the factorization approximation, we calculate the weak form factors from the overlapping integrals of meson wave functions obtained in the RIQ model and predict the branching fractions for a set of exclusive nonleptonic $B_c$-decays in reasonable agreement with other model predictions. Some of the decays of interest are found to have branching fractions $\sim (10^{-3}-10^{-4})$ within the detection ability of the current experiments and can be precisely measured at LHCb in near future. In the wake of the recent measurement of $B_c\to J/\psi\pi(K)$, $B_c\to J/\psi\pi(D_s)$, $B_c\to \pi(J/\psi,\psi(2S))$ and $B_c\to J/\psi(\pi,\mu \nu)$ reported by the LHCb Collaborations, we predict the ratios: ${\cal R}_{K/\pi}$, ${\cal R}_{D_s/\pi}$ and ${\cal R}_{\psi(2S)/{J/\psi}}$ in broad agreement with the LHCb data though our predicted ratio ${\cal R}_{\pi /{\mu\nu}}$ is found to be underestimated. The results indicate that the present approach works well in the description of exclusive nonleptonic $B_c$-decays within the framework of the RIQ model.