Study of Exclusive B decays to Charmed Baryons

TL;DR

This study measures branching fractions of various exclusive B meson decays to charmed baryons, observing new decay modes and providing improved limits, thereby enhancing understanding of baryonic B decays.

Contribution

It reports the first observation of B0bar -> Sigma_c(2455)++ pbar pi- and evidence for B- -> Sigma_c(2455)0 pbar, along with improved upper limits for other decay modes.

Findings

First observation of B0bar -> Sigma_c(2455)++ pbar pi-

Evidence for B- -> Sigma_c(2455)0 pbar decay

Improved upper limits for B0bar -> Lambda_c+ pbar and B- -> Sigma_c(2520)0 pbar

Abstract

Using 29.1fb-1 of data accumulated at the Upsilon(4S) with the Belle detector at KEKB, we have studied the decay modes B0bar->Lambda_c+ pbar pi+pi-, B- -> Lambda_c+ pbar pi-, and B0bar ->Lambda_c+ pbar. We report branching fractions of exclusive B decays to charmed baryons with four-, three- and two-body final states, including intermediate Sigma_c++ and Sigma_c0 states. We observed B0bar -> Sigma_c(2455)++pbar pi- for the first time with a branching fraction of (2.38+0.63-0.55+-0.41+-0.62)x10-4 and observed evidence for the two-body decay B- ->Sigma_c(2455)0 pbar with a branching fraction of (0.45+0.26-0.19+-0.07+-0.12)x10-4. We also set improved upper limits for the two-body decays B0bar -> Lambda_c+ pbar and B- -> Sigma_c(2520)0 pbar.