# Mixing effects of $\eta-\eta'$ in $\Lambda_b\rightarrow \Lambda \eta^{(')}$ decays

## TL;DR

This paper analyzes how different $ ext{eta}$-$ ext{eta'}$ mixing schemes affect $ ext{Lambda}_b$ decays to $ ext{Lambda}$ and $ ext{eta}^{(')}$, providing predictions for branching ratios, CP asymmetries, and guiding future experiments.

## Contribution

It systematically compares four $ ext{eta}$-$ ext{eta'}$ mixing schemes within PQCD, highlighting their impact on decay observables and suggesting potential overestimations in certain mixing angles.

## Key findings

- Predicted $ ext{Lambda}_b o ext{Lambda} ext{eta'}$ branching ratio exceeds experimental bounds in some schemes.
- Up-down asymmetries differ significantly between the two decay modes.
- $ ext{Lambda}_b o ext{Lambda} ext{eta}_c$ has a large branching ratio (~10^{-4}), accessible to LHCb.

## Abstract

We perform a thorough analysis of the $\eta-\eta'$ mixing effects on the $\Lambda_b\rightarrow \Lambda \eta^{(')}$ decays based on the perturbative QCD (PQCD) factorization approach. Branching ratios, up-down and direct $CP$ asymmetries are computed by considering four popular mixing schemes, such as $\eta-\eta'$, $\eta-\eta'-\eta_c$, $\eta-\eta'-G$, and $\eta-\eta'-G-\eta_c$ mixing formalism, where $G$ represents the physical pseudoscalar gluball. The PQCD predictions with the four mixing schemes does not change much for the $\eta$ channel but changes significantly for the $\eta'$ one. In particular, the value of $\mathcal{B}(\Lambda_b\rightarrow \Lambda \eta^{'})$ in the $\eta-\eta'-G-\eta_c$ mixing scheme exceeds the present experimental bound by a factor of 2, indicates the related mixing angles may be overestimated. Because of the distinctive patterns of interference between $S$-wave and $P$-wave amplitudes, the predicted up-down asymmetries for the two modes differ significantly. The obvious discrepancies among different theoretical analyses should be clarified in the future. The direct $CP$ violations are predicted to be at the level of a few percent mainly due to the tree contributions of the strange and nonstrange amplitudes suffer from the color suppression and CKM suppression. Finally, as a byproduct, we investigate the $\Lambda_b\rightarrow \Lambda \eta_c$ process, which has a large branching ratio of order $10^{-4}$, promising to be measured by the LHCb experiment. Our findings are useful for constraining the mixing parameters, comprehending the $\eta^{(')}$ configurations, and instructing experimental measurements.