Strong decay properties of single heavy baryons $\Lambda_{Q}$, $\Sigma_{Q}$ and $\Omega_{Q}$
Guo-Liang Yu, Yan Meng, Zhen-Yu Li, Zhi-Gang Wang, Lu Jie

TL;DR
This paper systematically analyzes the strong decay behaviors of single heavy baryons using the $^{3}P_{0}$ model, supporting recent experimental assignments and predicting potential observable states.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive decay analysis of heavy baryons and suggests quantum number assignments for observed states, also predicting new states for future experiments.
Findings
Supports assigning $ ext{Ω}_c(3185)$ as 2S($rac{3}{2}^{+}$)
Supports assigning $ ext{Ω}_c(3327)$ as 1D($rac{3}{2}^{+}$)
Predicts new baryon states and decay channels for experimental search.
Abstract
Motivated by recent progresses in experiments in searching for the baryons, we systematically analyze the strong decay behaviors of single heavy baryons , and . The two-body strong decay properties of -wave, -wave and some -wave states are studied with the model. The results support assigning the recently observed and as the 2S() and 1D() states, respectively. In addition, the quantum numbers of many other experimentally observed baryons are also suggested according to their strong decays. Finally, some baryons which have good potentials to be observed in experiments are predicted and the possible decay channels for searching for these predicted states are also suggested.
| Experimental informationarticle2B ; article2A | Quark modelGuoL | model | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| States | Mass | Width | Decay channels | Mass | Width | ||
| 2286.460.14 | / | weak | (1S) | 2288 | - | ||
| 2592.250.28 | 2.590.300.47 | (1P) | 2596 | 11.44 | |||
| 2628.110.19 | (1P) | 2631 | 1.0 | ||||
| 2766.62.4 | 50 | (2S) | 2764 | 25.34 | |||
| p | (1D) | 2875 | 9.03 | ||||
| 2881.630.24 | ,p | (1D) | 2891 | 7.22 | |||
| (2P) | 2988 | 12.40 | |||||
| 6072.32.9 | 7211 | (2S) | 6041 | 8.82 | |||
| 6146.170.4 | 2.91.3 | (1D) | 6137 | 5.99 | |||
| 6152.50.4 | 2.10.9 | (1D) | 6145 | 5.43 | |||
| Experimental informationarticle2B ; article2A | Quark modelGuoL | model | |||||
| States | Mass | Width | Decay channels | Mass | width | ||
| 2453.970.14 | (1S) | 2457 | - | ||||
| 2452.90.4 | 4.6 | ||||||
| 2453.750.14 | |||||||
| 2532 | 12.90 | ||||||
| 2517.5+2.3 | 17 | ||||||
| 2518.480.20 | |||||||
| 2802 | 6070 | ||||||
| 5815.640.27 | 5.30.5 | (1S) | 5820 | - | |||
| 5810.560.25 | 5.00.5 | ||||||
| 5830.320.27 | 9.40.5 | (1S) | 5849 | 14.00 | |||
| 5834.740.30 | 10.40.8 | ||||||
| 6098.01.8 | 294 | (1P) | 6104 | 30 | |||
| 6095.81.7 | 316 | ||||||
| Experimental informationarticle2B ; article2A | Quark modelGuoL | model | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| States | Mass | Width | Decay channels | Mass | width | ||
| 2695.21.7 | - | - | (1S) | 2699 | - | ||
| 2765.92.0 | - | - | (1S) | 2762 | - | ||
| 3000.40.20.10.3 | 4.50.60.3 | 1P()j=1 | 3045 | 5.00 | |||
| 3050.20.10.10.3 | 1P()j=1 | 3062 | 1.00 | ||||
| 3065.60.10.30.3 | 3.50.40.2 | 1P()j=2 | 3039 | 1.00 | |||
| 3090.20.30.50.3 | 8.71.00.8 | 1P()j=2 | 3067 | 2.50 | |||
| 3119.10.30.90.3 | (2S) | 3150 | 5.95 | ||||
| 3185.11.70.2 | 507 | (2S) | 3197 | 78.16 | |||
| 3327.11.20.2 | 205 | (1D) | 3313 | 25.20 | |||
| 6315.640.310.070.50 | 1P()j=1 | 6329 | 1.002.00 | ||||
| 6330.300.280.070.50 | 1P()j=1 | 6336 | 0.23 | ||||
| 6339.710.260.050.50 | 1P()j=2 | 6326 | 0.05 | ||||
| 6349.880.350.050.50 | 1P()j=2 | 6339 | 0.55 | ||||
| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notations | |||||||
| Assignments | (2S) | (2S) | (1P) | (2P) | (2P) | (1P) | (2P) |
| Mass | 2764 | 2764 | 2592 | 2988 | 2988 | 2628 | 3013 |
| 5.04 | 1.49 | 2.72 | 2.34 | 6.84 | 3.09 | 8.50 | |
| 5.14 | 1.50 | 6.00 | 2.34 | 6.77 | 3.93 | 8.70 | |
| 5.04 | 1.49 | 2.72 | 2.34 | 6.84 | 3.09 | 8.50 | |
| 3.33 | 1.26 | - | 5.20 | 5.74 | - | 2.17 | |
| 3.46 | 1.30 | - | 5.70 | 5.80 | - | 2.17 | |
| 3.33 | 1.26 | - | 0.052 | 5.74 | - | 2.17 | |
| - | - | - | 2.67 | 2.81 | - | 3.31 | |
| - | - | - | 2.55 | 2.80 | - | 3.23 | |
| 25.34 | 8.30 | 11.44 | 12.40 | 43.34 | 1.00 | 13.31 |
| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notations | |||||||
| Assignments | (2P) | (1D) | (2D) | (2D) | (1D) | (2D) | (2D) |
| Mass | 3013 | 2856 | 3220 | 3220 | 2882 | 3234 | 3234 |
| 6.47 | 2.69 | 3.10 | 8.90 | 5.60 | 8.40 | 7.47 | |
| 6.51 | 2.71 | 3.11 | 8.70 | 5.70 | 8.43 | 7.50 | |
| 6.47 | 2.69 | 3.10 | 8.90 | 5.60 | 8.39 | 7.47 | |
| 12.4 | 0.313 | 1.36 | 8.98 | 2.34 | 3.93 | 6.53 | |
| 12.4 | 0.318 | 1.37 | 9.01 | 2.37 | 3.93 | 6.52 | |
| 12.4 | 0.313 | 1.36 | 8.98 | 2.34 | 3.93 | 6.53 | |
| - | - | 2.53 | 2.57 | - | 2.81 | 2.70 | |
| - | - | 1.58 | 7.50 | - | 2.67 | 4.84 | |
| - | - | 1.58 | 7.50 | - | 2.67 | 4.84 | |
| 2.69 | - | 2.90 | 1.37 | - | 3.04 | 1.66 | |
| 2.73 | - | 2.87 | 1.30 | - | 3.00 | 1.58 | |
| - | - | 1.30 | 8.84 | - | 9.90 | 6.00 | |
| - | - | 1.30 | 8.84 | - | 9.90 | 6.00 | |
| 62.07 | 9.03 | 22.04 | 5.97 | 7.22 | 23.37 | 7.36 |
| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notations | ||||||
| Assignments | (2S) | (2S) | (2P) | (2P) | (2P) | (2P) |
| Mass | 6072 | 6072 | 6238 | 6238 | 6249 | 6249 |
| 1.39 | 5.50 | 1.98 | 11.5 | 2.40 | 2.76 | |
| 1.39 | 5.40 | 1.97 | 11.5 | 2.40 | 2.73 | |
| 1.23 | 4.90 | 1.94 | 11.7 | 2.20 | 2.60 | |
| 1.68 | 7.00 | 2.80 | 3.76 | 1.93 | 14.0 | |
| 1.69 | 7.00 | 2.80 | 3.71 | 1.92 | 14.0 | |
| 1.44 | 6.10 | 2.60 | 3.51 | 1.89 | 14.0 | |
| 8.82 | 3.59 | 5.97 | 45.68 | 5.81 | 50.09 |
| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notations | ||||||
| Assignments | (1D) | (2D) | (2D) | (1D) | (2D) | (2D) |
| Mass | 6146 | 6432 | 6432 | 6153 | 6440 | 6440 |
| 1.75 | 2.95 | 3.70 | 1.30 | 3.50 | 4.20 | |
| 1.74 | 2.94 | 3.80 | 1.30 | 3.50 | 4.10 | |
| 1.65 | 2.91 | 3.90 | 1.10 | 3.30 | 4.00 | |
| 2.90 | 1.02 | 6.70 | 1.84 | 3.67 | 7.60 | |
| 2.90 | 1.01 | 6.60 | 1.82 | 3.65 | 7.60 | |
| 2.70 | 0.99 | 6.40 | 1.73 | 3.60 | 7.70 | |
| - | 4.50 | 5.30 | - | 6.40 | 7.20 | |
| - | 2.72 | 8.80 | - | 2.85 | 1.10 | |
| - | 2.71 | 8.70 | - | 2.84 | 1.10 | |
| 5.99 | 17.7 | 3.82 | 5.43 | 18.28 | 4.46 |
| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Notations | |||||||
| Assignments | (2S) | (2S) | (1S) | (2S) | (2S) | (1P) | (2P) |
| Mass | 2913 | 2913 | 2518 | 2967 | 2967 | 2823 | 3196 |
| 71.70 | 5.38 | 12.90 | 93.70 | 1.75 | 282.70 | 6.96 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | 1.26 | |
| 33.00 | 3.80 | - | 12.40 | 8.26 | 1.23 | 8.93 | |
| 32.70 | 3.81 | - | 12.30 | 8.33 | 1.13 | 3.03 | |
| 9.28 | 1.73 | - | 38.00 | 4.78 | 1.08 | 3.55 | |
| 9.28 | 1.73 | - | 38.00 | 4.78 | 1.08 | 3.55 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | 1.50 | |
| - | - | - | 2.74 | 1.35 | - | 2.31 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | 1.41 | |
| 10.20 | 3.50 | - | 18.80 | 1.26 | 100.30 | 8.09 | |
| - | - | - | 1.77 | 1.71 | - | 1.38 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | 7.91 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | 2.36 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | 1.51 | |
| 166.16 | 11.96 | 12.90 | 214.97 | 12.48 | 383 | 17.36 |
| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Notations | |||||||
| Assignments | (2P) | (1P) | (2P) | (2P) | (1P) | (2P) | (2P) |
| Mass | 3196 | 2809 | 3185 | 3185 | 2829 | 3202 | 3202 |
| 16.30 | 5.85 | 4.53 | 7.91 | 2.22 | 4.45 | 4.27 | |
| 3.15 | - | 3.42 | 57.8 | - | 3.69 | 52.80 | |
| 1.25 | 157 | 5.85 | 2.90 | 9.92 | 2.97 | 9.50 | |
| 2.36 | 157 | 5.85 | 3.20 | 9.71 | 2.95 | 9.48 | |
| 8.65 | 3.90 | 2.84 | 13.20 | 134 | 5.99 | 8.42 | |
| 8.65 | 3.90 | 2.84 | 13.20 | 134 | 5.99 | 8.42 | |
| 1.40 | - | 1.02 | 9.56 | - | 1.36 | 2.07 | |
| 6.68 | - | 3.82 | 7.40 | - | 1.54 | 1.25 | |
| 3.04 | - | 1.07 | 2.60 | - | 7.15 | 9.69 | |
| 8.23 | 1.26 | 8.45 | 4.65 | 7.76 | 6.24 | 1.80 | |
| 7.51 | - | 6.33 | 1.68 | - | 6.34 | 2.08 | |
| 1.88 | - | 6.30 | 5.38 | - | 10.4 | 6.60 | |
| 2.52 | - | 1.90 | 1.63 | - | 3.42 | 2.50 | |
| 1.40 | - | 2.95 | 1.68 | - | 1.58 | 1.90 | |
| 31.21 | 314.78 | 26.07 | 97.91 | 269.96 | 37.14 | 101.53 |
| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Notations | ||||||
| Assignments | (1P) | (2P) | (2P) | (1P) | (2P) | (2P) |
| Mass | 2806 | 3179 | 3179 | 2835 | 3207 | 3207 |
| 13.60 | 2.06 | 33.40 | 18.70 | 2.49 | 35.0 | |
| - | 1.70 | 8.99 | - | 3.70 | 14.5 | |
| 1.13 | 4.36 | 15.57 | 8.70 | 2.46 | 7.75 | |
| 1.11 | 4.33 | 5.53 | 8.50 | 2.46 | 7.74 | |
| 2.95 | 2.41 | 11.51 | 9.70 | 4.93 | 20.70 | |
| 2.95 | 2.41 | 11.51 | 9.70 | 4.93 | 20.70 | |
| - | 1.29 | 2.30 | - | 1.24 | 1.83 | |
| - | 1.90 | 1.75 | - | 3.00 | 2.33 | |
| - | 6.28 | 1.6 | - | 4.96 | 1.07 | |
| - | 0.854 | 1.95 | 5.70 | 1.05 | 1.99 | |
| - | 3.60 | 2.66 | - | 4.98 | 3.16 | |
| - | 4.80 | 4.30 | - | 1.43 | 1.08 | |
| - | 1.40 | 1.30 | - | 4.30 | 3.40 | |
| - | 4.55 | 6.25 | - | 1.67 | 2.00 | |
| 19.13 | 4.72 | 93.68 | 22.42 | 5.77 | 115.60 |
| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Notations | |||||||
| Assignments | (2S) | (2S) | (1S) | (2S) | (2S) | (1P) | (2P) |
| Mass | 6225 | 6225 | 5835 | 6246 | 6246 | 6113 | 6447 |
| 88.80 | 3.05 | 14.0 | 100 | 4.50 | 316 | 8.23 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | 3.42 | |
| 28.40 | 4.09 | - | 8.67 | 1.04 | 3.64 | 2.60 | |
| 28.20 | 4.09 | - | 8.59 | 1.04 | 6.54 | 2.56 | |
| 11.80 | 1.96 | - | 36.3 | 5.13 | 6.60 | 1.62 | |
| 11.80 | 1.96 | - | 36.3 | 5.13 | 6.60 | 1.62 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | 2.31 | |
| 3.06 | 3.19 | - | 2.46 | 4.70 | - | 12.4 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | 7.11 | |
| 169.31 | 12.41 | 14.00 | 189.91 | 12.43 | 316.00 | 22.94 |
| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Notations | |||||||
| Assignments | (2P) | (1P) | (2P) | (2P) | (1P) | (2P) | (2P) |
| Mass | 6447 | 6107 | 6442 | 6442 | 6116 | 6450 | 6450 |
| 16.70 | 9.39 | 5.50 | 1.06 | - | 6.05 | 1.37 | |
| 1.87 | - | 2.47 | 83.4 | - | 2.71 | 83.3 | |
| 4.47 | 139 | 6.45 | 2.08 | 3.52 | 1.80 | 7.89 | |
| 4.82 | 138 | 6.45 | 2.14 | 3.40 | 1.79 | 7.86 | |
| 6.71 | 3.59 | 2.66 | 13.4 | 132 | 6.53 | 9.90 | |
| 6.71 | 3.59 | 2.66 | 13.4 | 132 | 6.53 | 9.90 | |
| 1.40 | - | 9.70 | 1.92 | - | 1.43 | 3.77 | |
| 12.40 | - | 1.54 | 1.84 | - | 1.87 | 2.56 | |
| 4.60 | - | 2.62 | 1.51 | - | 4.69 | 5.82 | |
| 7.65 | - | 8.39 | 1.67 | - | 8.41 | 1.96 | |
| 33.70 | 277.72 | 24.39 | 118.01 | 264.69 | 24.54 | 120.81 |
| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Notations | ||||||
| Assignments | (1P) | (2P) | (2P) | (1P) | (2P) | (2P) |
| Mass | 6098 | 6439 | 6439 | 6119 | 6452 | 6452 |
| 14.10 | 2.34 | 38.6 | 16.7 | 2.60 | 39.7 | |
| - | 1.15 | 1.53 | - | 2.62 | 2.86 | |
| 4.81 | 2.87 | 13.30 | 3.00 | 1.47 | 6.39 | |
| 4.62 | 2.84 | 13.20 | 2.91 | 1.46 | 6.36 | |
| 2.99 | 2.31 | 11.8 | 6.80 | 4.19 | 20.00 | |
| 2.99 | 2.31 | 11.8 | 6.80 | 4.19 | 20.00 | |
| - | - | - | - | 8.88 | 5.02 | |
| - | 8.11 | 1.00 | - | 1.10 | 1.24 | |
| - | 5.13 | 1.51 | - | 6.03 | 1.61 | |
| - | 4.09 | 2.42 | - | 5.00 | 2.71 | |
| 15.64 | 4.30 | 95.16 | 18.65 | 4.85 | 100.87 |
| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Notations | ||||||
| Assignments | (2S) | (2S) | (2S) | (2S) | (1P) | (2P) |
| Mass | 3120 | 3120 | 3197 | 3197 | 3057 | 3426 |
| 14.40 | 2.03 | 28.9 | 1.38 | 183 | 4.79 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | 1.11 | |
| 13.50 | 2.04 | 27.81 | 1.47 | 181 | 4.83 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | 3.54 | |
| 2.77 | 1.01 | 3.28 | 6.40 | - | 7.45 | |
| - | - | 3.17 | 1.18 | - | 1.15 | |
| 2.29 | 8.70 | 3.07 | 6.30 | - | 1.51 | |
| - | - | 2.69 | 1.03 | - | 5.34 | |
| - | - | 5.60 | 2.31 | - | 9.90 | |
| - | - | 9.00 | 1.67 | - | 3.80 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | 1.85 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | 1.77 | |
| 32.96 | 5.95 | 78.16 | 6.33 | 364.00 | 13.24 |
| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Notations | |||||||
| Assignments | (2P) | (1P) | (2P) | (2P) | (1P) | (2P) | (2P) |
| Mass | 3426 | 3000 | 3416 | 3416 | 3050 | 3431 | 3431 |
| 2.25 | 1.30 | 1.38 | 2.89 | 2.06 | 7.89 | 2.27 | |
| 7.90 | - | 1.21 | 39.60 | - | 1.41 | 38.9 | |
| 1.95 | 8.76 | 1.25 | 9.24 | 7.88 | 4.80 | 2.49 | |
| 1.60 | - | 1.18 | 39.6 | - | 1.38 | 39.10 | |
| 9.67 | - | 3.52 | 8.94 | - | 1.14 | 4.61 | |
| 5.67 | - | 7.25 | 4.95 | - | 3.44 | 7.30 | |
| 3.15 | - | 3.53 | 1.05 | - | 1.09 | 4.53 | |
| 4.88 | - | 6.94 | 4.83 | - | 3.43 | 7.51 | |
| 9.84 | - | 11.0 | 2.602 | - | 3.40 | 1.19 | |
| 5.07 | - | 11.1 | 2.012 | - | 3.02 | 1.14 | |
| 2.69 | - | 1.56 | 2.097 | - | 1.16 | 1.42 | |
| 2.38 | - | 1.18 | 1.67 | - | 9.10 | 1.18 | |
| 9.27 | 2.18 | 31.96 | 99.31 | 2.85 | 10.73 | 106.88 |
| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Notations | ||||||
| Assignments | (1P) | (2P) | (2P) | (1P) | (2P) | (2P) |
| Mass | 3066 | 3411 | 3411 | 3090 | 3435 | 3435 |
| 5.99 | 0.634 | 15.80 | 1.35 | 7.80 | 17.0 | |
| - | 5.81 | 7.68 | - | 2.29 | 2.04 | |
| 4.80 | 6.10 | 15.6 | 1.15 | 7.51 | 16.8 | |
| - | 5.07 | 6.92 | - | 2.15 | 1.91 | |
| - | 1.64 | 7.43 | - | 9.50 | 3.77 | |
| - | 6.10 | 4.27 | - | 1.32 | 8.08 | |
| - | 1.57 | 7.27 | - | 9.10 | 3.70 | |
| - | 5.80 | 4.16 | - | 1.26 | 7.90 | |
| - | 4.88 | 1.95 | - | 2.84 | 9.67 | |
| - | 4.28 | 1.84 | - | 2.52 | 9.26 | |
| - | 16.0 | 6.67 | - | 5.10 | 6.12 | |
| - | 15.4 | 7.62 | - | 4.00 | 5.12 | |
| 1.08 | 34.00 | 74.07 | 2.50 | 2.61 | 64.22 |
| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Notations | ||||||
| Assignments | (1D) | (1D) | (1D) | (1D) | (1D) | (1D) |
| Mass | 3304 | 3313 | 3304 | 3314 | 3304 | 3315 |
| 10.01 | 10.12 | - | - | 1.04 | 1.17 | |
| 9.98 | 10.97 | - | - | 9.82 | 1.11 | |
| 2.55 | 6.61 | 5.74 | 1.54 | 1.51 | 1.11 | |
| 8.00 | 2.15 | 7.69 | 4.70 | 4.00 | 7.01 | |
| 2.51 | 6.52 | 5.65 | 1.44 | 1.41 | 9.43 | |
| 7.77 | 2.09 | 7.45 | 4.58 | 3.64 | 6.42 | |
| 2.23 | 5.97 | 5.02 | 5.53 | 4.90 | - | |
| 2.02 | 5.48 | 4.56 | 4.12 | 3.54 | - | |
| 30.87 | 27.73 | 22.48 | 9.64 | 2.48 | 2.62 |
| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Notations | ||||||
| Assignments | (2S) | (2S) | (2S) | (2S) | (1P) | (2P) |
| Mass | 6446 | 6446 | 6466 | 6466 | 6334 | 6662 |
| 258 | 2.23 | 25.30 | 2.03 | 169 | 5.83 | |
| 235 | 2.29 | 23.00 | 2.16 | 155 | 5.91 | |
| 11.30 | 3.30 | 6.00 | 2.30 | - | 2.21 | |
| - | - | 3.30 | 1.60 | - | 8.14 | |
| 7.03 | 2.10 | 4.87 | 1.90 | - | 9.17 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | 1.19 | |
| - | - | - | 0 | - | 9.04 | |
| - | - | - | 0 | - | 4.98 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | 1.45 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | 1.22 | |
| 511.30 | 5.06 | 49.42 | 4.63 | 324 | 14.41 |
| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Notations | |||||||
| Assignments | (2P) | (1P) | (2P) | (2P) | (1P) | (2P) | (2P) |
| Mass | 6662 | 6316 | 6658 | 6658 | 6330 | 6664 | 6664 |
| 5.60 | 2.76 | 6.27 | 8.94 | 6.08 | 1.43 | 1.27 | |
| 2.50 | 1.13 | 1.55 | 1.78 | 2.35 | 2.83 | 1.69 | |
| 1.68 | - | 3.69 | 7.33 | - | 3.90 | 2.73 | |
| 1.56 | - | 3.80 | 3.44 | - | 3.47 | 12.70 | |
| 2.04 | - | 3.68 | 7.76 | - | 3.70 | 2.65 | |
| 2.25 | - | 3.60 | 3.30 | - | 3.46 | 13.10 | |
| 1.18 | - | 13.90 | 7.70 | - | 3.50 | 2.50 | |
| 3.01 | - | 13.30 | 1.16 | - | 2.60 | 1.90 | |
| 1.11 | - | 6.25 | 9.50 | - | 6.51 | 9.50 | |
| 1.01 | - | 1.82 | 2.90 | - | 2.75 | 4.80 | |
| 2.93 | 3.89 | 34.65 | 23.88 | 2.96 | 7.08 | 31.76 |
| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notations | ||||||
| Assignments | (1P) | (2P) | (2P) | (1P) | (2P) | (2P) |
| Mass | 6340 | 6655 | 6655 | 6350 | 6666 | 6666 |
| 1.70 | 5.60 | 16.50 | 3..50 | 6.30 | 17.30 | |
| 8.10 | 5.10 | 15.90 | 2.00 | 5.70 | 16.70 | |
| - | 6.10 | 4.49 | - | 3.30 | 2.23 | |
| - | 3.20 | 2.98 | - | 6.20 | 5.31 | |
| - | 5.80 | 4.35 | - | 3.10 | 2.16 | |
| - | 3.00 | 2.86 | - | 5.80 | 5.11 | |
| - | 4.40 | 3.30 | - | 3.00 | 2.10 | |
| - | 3.10 | 2.0 | - | 2.30 | 1.70 | |
| - | 12.10 | 9.58 | - | 3.19 | 4.60 | |
| - | 9.00 | 8.23 | - | 1.46 | 2.20 | |
| 2.50 | 22.43 | 65.47 | 5.50 | 1.44 | 49.26 |
| N | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
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| Assignments | (1D) | (1D) | (1D) | (1D) | (1D) | (1D) |
| Mass | 6556 | 6561 | 6556 | 6561 | 6556 | 6562 |
| 10.82 | 10.95 | - | - | 7.83 | 8.51 | |
| 10.95 | 10.74 | - | - | 6.88 | 7.51 | |
| 1.61 | 4.23 | 3.62 | 2.68 | 2.65 | 1.77 | |
| 5.12 | 1.38 | 4.73 | 2.99 | - | 1.64 | |
| 1.55 | 4.08 | 3.49 | 2.40 | 2.36 | 1.58 | |
| 4.82 | 1.30 | 4.44 | 2.82 | - | 1.40 | |
| 25.57 | 25.20 | 8.03 | 5.86 | 1.53 | 1.67 |
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Strong decay properties of single heavy baryons , and
Guo-Liang Yu1
Yan Meng1
Zhen-Yu Li2
Zhi-Gang Wang1
Lu Jie1
1 Department of Mathematics and Physics, North China Electric Power University, Baoding 071003, People’s Republic of China
2 School of Physics and Electronic Science, Guizhou Education University, Guiyang 550018, People’s Republic of China
Abstract
Motivated by recent progresses in experiments in searching for the baryons, we systematically analyze the strong decay behaviors of single heavy baryons , and . The two-body strong decay properties of -wave, -wave and some -wave states are studied with the model. The results support assigning the recently observed and as the 2S() and 1D() states, respectively. In addition, the quantum numbers of many other experimentally observed baryons are also suggested according to their strong decays. Finally, some baryons which have good potentials to be observed in experiments are predicted and the possible decay channels for searching for these predicted states are also suggested.
pacs:
13.25.Ft; 14.40.Lb
**1 Introduction **
Very recently, two new excited states, and , were observed in the invariant-mass spectrum using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9fb*-1*3185 . At the same time, another five previously observed states, , , , , OmegaC3000 were also confirmed. Actually, scientists have made great progresses in searching for the single heavy baryons such as 2595 , 26251 ; 26252 , LambdaC2765 , LambdaC29401 ; LambdaC29402 ; LambdaC29403 , and 59121 ; 59122 , LambdaB60721 , and LambdaB6146 , 2800 , 6097 , , , and OmegaB6316 . All of the experimentally discovered , and baryons are collected in Tables 1-3. The quantum numbers of some baryons have been suggested or confirmed, however the others are still unidentified.
In our previous work, we have systematically studied the mass spectra of the , and systems with the constituent quark modelGuoL . The quantum numbers of the experimentally observed baryons were suggested and are also shown in Tables 1-3. At the same time, some excited baryon states were also predicted in Ref.GuoL . For example, the predicted masses are 3197 MeV for the 2() baryon and 33043315 MeV for the 1 ones. These results are consistent well with the experimental data of the newly observed and baryons. This implies that these two baryons can be assigned as the 2() and 1 states, respectively. In addition, many other states which have good potentials to be found in experiments were predicted, such as the 2 , 2 doublet (,), 1 /, and 1 statesGuoL . To make a further confirmation about the assignments of the experimental states and provide more valuable infirmation for searching for these predicted baryons, it is necessary to systematically investigate the strong decay behaviors of the single heavy baryons. Fortunately, we can continue this research now with the results obtained from the quark modelGuoL .
As a phenomenological method, the quark model was developed to study the OZI-allowed hadronic decay widths3P01 ; 3P02 ; 3P03 ; 3P04 ; 3P0M01A ; 3P0M01B ; 3P0M01C ; 3P0M02 ; 3P0M03 . Now, this model has been extensively used to describe the two-body strong decays of the heavy mesons in the charmonium and bottommonium systems3P0M04 ; 3P0M05 ; 3P0M061 ; 3P0M062 ; 3P0M07 ; 3P0M081 ; 3P0M082 ; 3P0M09 ; 3P0M010 ; 3P0M011 ; 3P0M012 ; 3P0M013 ; 3P0M014 ; 3P0M015 , the baryons3P05 ; 3P06 ; 3P07 ; 3P08 ; 3P09 ; 3P010 ; 3P011 ; 3P012 ; 3P013 ; 3P014 ; 3P015 ; 3P0161 ; 3P0Z1 ; 3P0Z2 ; 3P0Z3 ; 3P0Z4 ; 3P0Z5 and even the teraquark states3P0T01 . In this work, model will be employed to study the two-body strong decay properties of the -wave, -wave and some -wave single heavy baryons. The calculated strong decay widths in this work will be confronted with the experimental data in the future and will be helpful in searching for new states of single heavy baryons from the Belle, BABAR, CLEO and LHCb collaborations.
The paper is organized as follows. In Section II, we give a brief review of the decay model; In Sec III, using the predicted mass spectra by quark modelGuoL , we study the two-body strong decay behaviors of the -wave, -wave and some -wave heavy baryon states. And Sec IV is reserved for our conclusions.
**2 strong decay model **
The main idea of model model is that the strong decay takes place via the creation of a quark-antiquark pair from the vacuum. Then, this quark-antiquark pair regroups with the initial hadron A into two daughter hadrons B and C. This process is illustrated in Fig. 1.
In the model, the strong decay width for the process can be written as3P05 ; 3P09 ; 3P010 ; 3P011 ,
[TABLE]
where and are the mass and total angular momentum of the initial baryon A, and are the ones for the daughter hadrons. is the momentum of the daughter hadrons in the centre-of-mass frame. in Eq.(1) is the helicity amplitude, which reads3P05 ; 3P09 ; 3P010 ; 3P011
[TABLE]
In the above equation, is the spin of the th quark, and denote the orbital angular momentum between two light quarks, and between the heavy quark and light quark subsystem(Fig. 2), respectively. L is the total orbital angular momentum, j represents total angular momentum of L and the total spin of the light quark subsystem, J is the total angular momentum of a baryon. The Clebsch-Gordan coefficients in Eq.(2) indicate the conservation of the angular momentum, e.g., , , and . is a factor equal to when each one of the two quarks in C has isospin , and when one of the two quarks in C has isospin [math]3P04 ; 3P010 . is the flavor matrix element of the flavor wave functions (=,,,0), which has the following relation with the isospin matrix element 3P04 ; 3P09 ,
[TABLE]
where
[TABLE]
Here, , and represent the isospins of the initial baryon, the final baryon and the final meson. , and denote the isospins of relevant quarks, respectively. takes the value f=\big{(}\frac{2}{3}\big{)}^{1/2} if the isospin of the created quark is , and f=-\big{(}\frac{1}{3}\big{)}^{1/2} for the isospin of [math]3P04 ; 3P010 . In Eq.(2), the space integral is written as3P05 ; 3P09 ; 3P010 ; 3P011 ,
[TABLE]
where represents momentum of the th quark and , and are the momentum of hadrons. In this work, the simple harmonic oscillator(SHO) wave function is chosen as the spatial part of the baryonsBpara ,
[TABLE]
Here, is a normalization coefficient of the wave function, and represent the relative momentum between two light quarks, and between the heavy quark and the center of mass of two light quarks(Fig. 2), respectively. The relative wave function in the above equation is written as,
[TABLE]
where is the Laguerre polynomial function, and represents the spherical harmonic function. The relation between the solid harmonica polynomial and can be written as .
In the heavy quark limit, the heavy quark in a single heavy baryon is decoupled from two light quarks. Under this picture, the dynamics of a single heavy baryon are commonly separated into two parts, which is illustrated in Fig. 2. The degree of freedom between two light quarks( and ) is called -mode, while the degree of freedom between the center of mass of two light quarks and the heavy quark is called -mode. For -wave baryons, there are two orbital excitation modes - and -mode with (,)=(0,1) and (1,0) respectively. While there are three excitation modes for -wave baryons with (,)=(0,2), (2,0) and (1,1), which are called the -mode, -mode and - mixing mode, respectively. It is indicated that the lowest state of a single heavy baryon is dominated by the -mode excitations and almost all experimentally observed single heavy baryons can be interpreted as -mode excited statesGuoL ; 3P013 . Thus, only the strong decays of single heavy baryons with -mode orbital excitations are considered in this work.
**3 Numerical results and discussions **
The final results of model depend on some input parameters such as the quark pair () creation strength , the SHO wave function scale parameter , and the masses of the hadrons. As for the quark pair creation strength, we take the universal value 3P0M01A ; 3P05 ; 3P010 . For the heavy baryons, the parameters can be fixed to reproduce the mass splitting through the contact term in the potential modelBpara . Their values are taken as GeV*-1* for -wave baryon, GeV*-1* for -wave baryon and GeV*-1* for - and -wave baryons3P05 ; 3P010 ; Bpara . As for the light mesons, the value of was suggested to be GeV*-1* in Ref.3P0M01A ; 3P0M01B ; 3P0M01C , where it was determined by performing a series of least squares fits of the model predictions to the decay widths of 28 of the best known meson decays. For heavier mesons, their values are different from light meson’s and are taken as GeV*-1*, GeV*-1*, GeV*-1* and GeV*-1*3P017 ; 3P018 . All these values of heavy mesons were predicted by the relativistic quark model3P017 ; 3P018 . With the predicted masses in Refs.GuoL , we study the OZI-allowed strong decay behaviors of the , , , states and some of the , states. The results are presented in Tables 4-21 of Appendix A. In these tables, the single heavy baryons are denoted as , and , where the superscript is the total orbital angular momentum with . The superscripts and denote the first radial excitation with (,)=([math], ) and (, [math]), respectively. The subscript represents the total angular momentum of light quarks which satisfies . The experimental informationarticle2B ; article2A and predictions from quark modelGuoL for , and baryons are collected in 1-3, and the predicted widths at present work by model are also shown in the last column in these tables.
**3.1 states **
For systems, we can see from Tables 1, 4-7 that the predicted decay widths are roughly compatible with the experimental data. For , it was suggested as a () state by quark modelGuoL . The predicted total width of the -wave () state is MeV(Table 4), which is lower than the experimental data. Considering the theoretical uncertainty, it is reasonable to assign as the (). The theoretical total width for -wave () is MeV(Table 4), which is compatible with the experimental data of . Thus, can be assigned as the () state. As for the and , they were interpreted as a doublet (,) by other collaborations3P010 . Our predicted mass spectrum in quark model also supports this conclusionGuoL . Under this assignment, the theoretical total width for is MeV(Tables 1 and 5) which is consistent with the results of other collaborations3P010 . However, this value is much lower than the experimental data which is about MeV. We hope this divergence can be clarified in the future if more theoretical and experimental efforts were devoted into this problem.
The bottom baryons (6072), (6146) and (6152) were observed in the invariant mass spectrum. It is known that this three-body decay to can take place according to intermediate and states. For as an example, the and processes have been clearly visibleLambdaB6146 . Thus, the two-body strong decay properties are commonly estimated by the model, which serves as an important information to understand the nature of these newly observed baryons3P011 ; 3P013 ; 3P015 ; 3P0Z2 ; LambdaB60722 . In many references, and were suggested to be the -wave doublet (,) which are the partners of the and 3P013 ; 3P015 . In this work, the predicted total widths for this doublet are MeV and MeV(Tables 1 and 7), respectively. These values are comparable with the experimental measurements and consistent well with the predictions of other collaborations3P013 ; 3P015 . However, the LHCb announced that they did not observe significant signals in their experiments. This divergence between experiments and model prediction needs further confirmation.
As for , the LHCb Collaboration suggested that it can be assigned as the first radial excitation of baryonLambdaB60721 , 2S() state. The predicted masses for the 2S(), 1P() and 1P() baryons by constituent quark modelGuoL are 6041 MeV, 5898 MeV and 5913 MeV, respectively. The measured mass of is 6072 MeVLambdaB60721 , which is compatible with the prediction for 2S() state from quark model. However, the theoretical width for 2S() state is 8.82 MeV in this work(Tables 1 and 6), which is much smaller than the experimental data. In Ref.LambdaB60722 , the predicted width for 2S() state was 9.27 MeV, which is also significantly smaller than experimental data and consistent with our results. In their studies, they also treated as a 1P-wave state and predicted its total width to be 72 MeV by considering the mixing mechanism. However, the theoretical masses of 1P-wave baryonsGuoL are not consistent with experiments. This divergence between theoretical prediction and experimental data suggests that the nature of needs further verification by different theoretical methods and experiments.
It is also shown in Tables 4-6, the predicted total widths for -wave states (), () and () are MeV, MeV and MeV, respectively. These widths are relatively narrow, which indicates these states have good potentials to be discovered in the future. To be more specific, the main decay channels are , and for (), while and are the main decay modes for () and (), respectively.
**3.2 states **
As for the baryons, the lowest -wave states and have been observed and confirmedarticle2A ; article2B . However, the spin-parities of experimentally observed and need confirmation in more ways3P09 ; 3P012 . According to the predictions by quark model, both and can be accommodated in the mass spectra as lowest-lying -wave states. Yet it is noted that there are five -wave states in quark model, where their masses are close to each otherGuoL . The is proposed to be a ()j=2 state by quark model and so does . From Tables 8-13, we can see that both and are impossible the spin singlet or the spin doublet (,)j=1 because of their large theoretical widths. For baryons, the predicted total widths for () or () are MeV and MeV respectively(Table 13), which are close to each other and at the same order of magnitude with the experimental data. Because the predicted mass for () by quark model is closer to the measured resultsGuoL , the () is a better candidate for . As for , its situation is very similar with that of 28001 ; 28002 ; 28003 and the possible assignment for it is (). If these assignments for and are true, their predicted total widths are still lower than measured values. Especially for , its theoretical width is MeV, which is much lower than excremental data. The first interpretation of this deviation is the uncertainties of the model. In the following, we will see that the result from the model may be a factor of off the experimental width. Another interpretation of this problem is the mixing mechanism of the quark model states. We know that the physical resonances can be the mixing of the quark model states with the same WL ,
[TABLE]
[TABLE]
That is to say, state mixing can occur between and as in Eq.(9). Considering the mixing mechanism, we plot the total decay widths of the mixing states and versus the mixing angle in the range in Figs. 4-4. When the mixing angle is constrained in in Fig. 4, the total width of can reach about MeV, which is consistent with the experimental data. Thus, can be interpreted as a mixing state of and . It is same for , if the mixing angle equals to in Fig. 4, the total width of can reach MeV MeV, which indicates is possibly a mixing state of and .
The theoretical widths of -wave () and () which are still missing in experiments, are predicted to be MeV and MeV, respectively(Tables 10 and 13). It is shown that and are the ideal channels to search for these two states. As mentioned in Ref.GuoL , the -wave () and () are also expected to be observed in experiments. The theoretical widths for 2 states (), (), (), and () are MeV(Tables 8 and 11), which are relatively narrow. This implies that these states may easily be observed in future experiments. The decay modes and provide dominating contributions to the total widths of () and (), while , and are the dominating decay channels for () and () states.
**3.3 states **
As for the newly observed and , their masses are consistent with the predictions for 2() and 1 states by quark modelGuoL . As a 2-wave () state, the theoretical width of is 78.16 MeV(Tables 3 and 14). This value is close to the experimental data 507 MeV. Thus, it is reasonable to assign as a 2() state. The is discovered in the decay channel with a total width being 205 Mev3185 . From Table 17, we can see the decay channels and total widths of 1D-wave and states are both compatible with experimental data. However, the predicted mass for the latter, 3313 MeVGuoL , is closer to experiments. Therefore, is possibly a 1D() state.
According to the mass spectrumGuoL , the previously observed baryons , (, ) and (, ) were suggested as a () state, the doublets (,)j=1 and (,)j=2, respectively. As a -wave () state, the theoretical width of is MeV(Table 14), which is slightly larger than the experimental data(Table 3). Given the theoretical uncertainty, it is reasonable to interpret as a () state. This also means that and are a 2 doublet (, ). It is shown in Tables 14-16 that the predicted widths for the five -wave states, (), (), (), () and () are MeV, MeV, MeV, MeV and MeV, respectively. In comparison with the experimental data, the assignments for and as a doublet (,)j=2 is reasonable. However, the predicted widths of the doublet (,)j=1 are very tiny, which means the above assignments for and is unreasonable. In Ref.3P0161 , these two baryons were suggested to be the -wave states. However, the predicted masses in quark model for -wave are much larger than the experimental data, which indicates -wave states are not good candidates for and . Again, if we consider the mixing mechanism, and still can be described as the -wave states.
We plot the total widths of the mixing states versus the mixing angle in the range in Figs. 6-6. It is shown that three mixing states , , and belong to the narrow resonances. If the mixing angle is constrained in a small value in Fig. 6, the total width of reaches 45 MeV. In addition, the values for and in Fig. 6 are all lower than MeV. These results are roughly compatible with the experimental data. Thus, we tentatively assign the , , and as the mixing states , and , respectively and assign as a pure () state.
As for the narrow resonances, , , , and , their situation is very similar with the -wave states. After considering state mixing, the total width are plotted in Figs. 8-8. From these figures, we can obtain the similar conclusions with baryons, that , , , and can be respectively described as three mixing states , , , and a pure state (). In Refs. WL ; 3P0Z3 , they also obtained the same conclusions with ours.
Up to now, the doublet (, ) have been observed. However, their partners () and () are still missing in experiments. The results in Table 18 show that the radial excited mode of these two states may be the excitations with (, )=(, [math]). Theoretical widths for these two states are MeV and MeV, respectively. They have the similar decay behaviors, both of them dominantly decay into and .
As for the uncertainties of model, it arise from the quark pair creation strength , the masses of hadrons, and the SHO wave function parameter . The parameter of describes the strength of quark-antiquark pair creation from the vacuum, and it is usually taken as the universal value of 13.4 which is fitted according to experimental data3P0M01A ; 3P05 ; 3P010 . As for the masses of hadrons and scale parameters , we illustrate the dependence of the results on them in Figs. 10-12, using two typical decay channels ()\rightarrow$$\Xi_{c}^{+}K^{-} and ()\rightarrow$$\Xi_{c}^{+}K^{-}. It is shown in Figs. 10-10 that the masses of initial heavy baryons have limited influence on the results. However, the predicted width changes times when the parameters and of states change from GeV*-1* to GeV*-1*(Figs. 12-12). This indicates that the uncertainties mainly originate from parameters . As discussed at the beginning of Section 3, we carefully take their values which are either fixed by fitting experimental data3P0M01A ; 3P0M01B ; 3P0M01C or determined by solving the Schrödinger equation3P05 ; 3P010 ; Bpara ; 3P017 ; 3P018 . It is difficult to calculate the exact uncertainties of results originated from because the uncertainties of is unknown. It was stated in Ref. 3P05 that the maximum deviation of theoretical results may be a factor of off the experimental width. Even with the above uncertainty, the model is still the most systematic, effective, and widely used framework to study the baryon strong decays. More detailed analysis about the uncertainties of the results in the decay model can be found in Refs. 3P0M01A ; 3P05 .
**4 Conclusions **
In this work, we have systematically investigated strong decay behaviors of the single heavy baryons , , and . A number of experimental states without spin-parity assignments are successfully distinguished. For example, the , , , are suggested to be the (), (), () and () states, respectively. The and may be the pure quark model state ()j=2. Another possible interpretation is that each of them is the mixing state of and . The and are supported as the 2S doublet (, ) and is assigned as the pure quark model state (). Model predictions support assigning the recently observed as a 1D() state. As for , and , they can be interpreted as the mixing states , , and , respectively. The , , , and can be described as the mixing states , , , and a pure quark model state (), respectively.
A number of single heavy barons which have good potentials to be discovered in forthcoming experiments are predicted and some valuable clues for searching for these missing baryons are suggested by decay model. For systems, we suggest to search for the -wave state () in the decay channels , and . For spin-doublet (, )j=1, they are most likely to be found in decay channels and , respectively. As mentioned in Section 3.1, and are the ideal decay channels to find the -wave () and () states. The -wave () and () have good potentials to be observed in the and decay channels, while , and are the dominating decay modes for () and () states. Finally, we suggest to hunt for the -wave doublet (, ) in the and decay channels.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Si-Qiang Luo and Xiang Liu for their valuable discussions. This project is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of HeBei Province, Grant Number A2018502124.
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