Semileptonic decays of doubly charmed baryons with $\Xi_c-\Xi_c'$ mixing

TL;DR

This paper investigates the effects of $\, ext{ extbackslash Xi}_c - ext{ extbackslash Xi}_c' ext{ extbackslash }$ mixing on semileptonic decays of doubly charm baryons, revealing significant sensitivity of decay ratios and polarization asymmetries to the mixing angle.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of $\, ext{ extbackslash Xi}_c - ext{ extbackslash Xi}_c' ext{ extbackslash }$ mixing effects on decay observables, providing a method to determine the mixing angle experimentally.

Findings

Decay ratio ${ m R}( heta_0)$ sharply differs from the no-mixing case.

Polarization asymmetries vary significantly with mixing angle.

Decay observables are highly sensitive to $ heta_c$ and unaffected by $W$-exchange.

Abstract

We study the $\Xi_c- \Xi_c'$ mixing effects in the semileptonic decays the doubly charm baryons of $\Xi_{cc}$. We focus on the ratio of ${\cal R}(\theta_c) \equiv {\cal B}( \Xi_{cc} \to \Xi_c' e^+ \nu_e)/ {\cal B}( \Xi_{cc} \to \Xi_c e^+ \nu_e) $ and find that $({\cal R}(\theta_0),{\cal R}(- \theta_0)) =(0.46 \pm 0.01,7.33 \pm 0.23)$ with $\theta_0 = 0.137\pi$, which are in sharp contrast to ${\cal R}(0)=2.15\pm0.11$ without the mixing. The ratio is enhanced~(suppressed) by a factor of four for a negative~(positive) $\theta_c$. In addition, the polarization asymmetries of $\Xi_c^{(\prime)}$ are found to be $\alpha(-\theta_0) = 0.32 ~(-0.76)$ and $\alpha(\theta_0) = -0.82~(-0.38)$. As ${\cal R}$ and $\alpha $ are highly sensitive to $\theta_c$ and unaffected by the $W$-exchange contributions, they provide excellent opportunities to determine $\theta_c$ in the ongoing experiments.