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Motivated by recent anomalies in FCNC $bto sell^+ell^-$, we study $B_1to B_2ell^+ell^-(ell=e,mu,tau)$ semi-leptonic weak decays with the SU(3) flavor symmetry, where $B_{1,2}$ are the spin-1/2 baryons of single bottomed anti-triplet $T_{b3}$, single charmed anti-triplet $T_{c3}$ or light baryon octet $T_{8}$. Using the SU(3) irreducible representation approach, we first obtain the amplitude relations among different decays, and then predict the relevant not-yet measured observables of these decays. (a) We calculate the branching ratios of the $T_{b3}to T_8 mu^+mu^-$ and $T_{b3}to T_8 tau^+tau^-$ in the whole $q^2$ region and in the different $q^2$ bins by the measurement of $Lambda^0_bto Lambda^0 mu^+mu^-$. Many of them are obtained for the first time. In addition, the longitudinal polarization fractions and the leptonic forward-backward asymmetries of all $T_{b3}to T_{8}ell^+ell^-$ decays are very similar to each other in certain $q^2$ bin due to the SU(3) flavor symmetry. (b) We analyze the upper limits of $B(T_{c3}to T_{8}ell^+ell^-)$ by using the experimental upper limits of $B(Lambda^+_cto pmu^+mu^-)$ and $B(Lambda^+_cto pe^+e^-)$, and find the experimental upper limit of $B(Lambda^+_cto pmu^+mu^-)$ giving effective bounds on the relevant SU(3) flavor symmetry parameters. The predictions of $B(Xi^0_c to Xi^0e^+e^-)$ and $B(Xi^0_c to Xi^0mu^+mu^-)$ will be different between the single-quark transition dominant contributions and the W-exchange dominant ones. (c) As for $T_{8}to T_8 ell^+ell^-$ decays, we analyze the single-quark transition contributions and the W-exchange contributions by using two measurements of $ B(Xi^0to Lambda^0 e^+e^-)$ and $ B(Sigma^+to pmu^+mu^-)$, and give the branching ratio predictions by assuming either single-quark transition dominant contributions or the W-exchange dominant ones.
We carry out an analysis of the full set of ten $bar{B}to D^{(*)}$ form factors within the framework of the Heavy-Quark Expansion (HQE) to order $mathcal{O}(alpha_s,,1/m_b,,1/m_c^2)$, both with and without the use of experimental data. This becomes possible due to a recent calculation of these form factors at and beyond the maximal physical recoil using QCD light-cone sum rules, in combination with constraints from lattice QCD, QCD three-point sum rules and unitarity. We find good agreement amongst the various theoretical results, as well as between the theoretical results and the kinematical distributions in $bar{B}to D^{(*)}lbrace e^-,mu^-rbracebar u$ measurements. The coefficients entering at the $1/m_c^2$ level are found to be of $mathcal{O}(1)$, indicating convergence of the HQE. The phenomenological implications of our study include an updated exclusive determination of $|V_{cb}|$ in the HQE, which is compatible with both the exclusive determination using the BGL parametrization and with the inclusive determination. We also revisit predictions for the lepton-flavour universality ratios $R_{D^{(*)}}$, the $tau$ polarization observables $P_tau^{D^{(*)}}$, and the longitudinal polarization fraction $F_L$. Posterior samples for the HQE parameters are provided as ancillary files, allowing for their use in subsequent studies.
We have systematically investigated the magnetic moments of spin-$frac{1}{2}$ doubly charmed baryons in the framework of the heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. In this paper, one loop corrections with intermediate spin-$frac{1}{2}$ and spin-$frac{3}{2}$ doubly charmed baryon states are considered. The numerical results are calculated to next-to-leading order: $mu_{Xi^{++}_{cc}}=0.35mu_{N}$, $mu_{Xi^{+}_{cc}}=0.62mu_{N}$, $mu_{Omega^{+}_{cc}}=0.41mu_{N}$. Our results may be useful for future experiment and chiral extrapolation of the lattice QCD.
The weak and electromagnetic radiative baryon decays of octet $T_{8}$, decuplet $T_{10}$, single charmed anti-triplet $T_{c3}$ and sextet $T_{c6}$, single heavy bottomed anti-triplet $T_{b3}$ and sextet $T_{b6}$ are investigated by using SU(3) flavor symmetry irreducible representation approach. We analyze the contributions from a single quark transition $q_1to q_2gamma$ and $W$ exchange transitions, and find that the amplitudes could be easily related by SU(3) flavor symmetry in the $T_{b3,b6}$ weak radiative decays, $T_{c3,c6}$ weak radiative decays, $T_{10}to T_{8}gamma $ weak decays, $T_{10}to T_{10}gamma $ weak decays and $T_{10}to T_{8}gamma $ electromagnetic decays. Nevertheless, the amplitude relations are a little complex in the $T_{8}to T_{8}gamma$ and $T_{8}to T_{10}gamma$ weak decays due to quark antisymmetry in $T_{8}$ and $W$ exchange contributions. Predictions for branching ratios of $Lambda^{0}_bto ngamma$, $Xi^{-}_bto Xi^-gamma$, $Xi^{-}_bto Sigma^-gamma$, $Xi^{0}_bto Sigma^0gamma$, $Xi^{0}_bto Lambda^0gamma$, $Xi^{0}_bto Xi^0gamma$, $Xi^{*}to Xigamma$, $Sigma^{*0}to Sigma^{0}gamma$, $Delta^0to ngamma$ and $Delta^+to pgamma$ are given. The results in this work can be used to test SU(3) flavor symmetry approach in the radiative baryon decays by the future experiments at BESIII, LHCb and Belle-II.
We present the first lattice Nf=2+1+1 determination of the tensor form factor $f_T^{D pi(K)}(q^2)$ corresponding to the semileptonic and rare $D to pi(K)$ decays as a function of the squared 4-momentum transfer $q^2$. Together with our recent determination of the vector and scalar form factors we complete the set of hadronic matrix elements regulating the semileptonic and rare $D to pi(K)$ transitions within and beyond the Standard Model, when a non-zero tensor coupling is possible. Our analysis is based on the gauge configurations produced by ETMC with Nf=2+1+1 flavors of dynamical quarks, which include in the sea, besides two light mass-degenerate quarks, also the strange and charm quarks with masses close to their physical values. We simulated at three different values of the lattice spacing and with pion masses as small as 220 MeV. The matrix elements of the tensor current are determined for plenty of kinematical conditions in which parent and child mesons are either moving or at rest. As in the case of the vector and scalar form factors, Lorentz symmetry breaking due to hypercubic effects is clearly observed also in the data for the tensor form factor and included in the decomposition of the current matrix elements in terms of additional form factors. After the extrapolations to the physical pion mass and to the continuum and infinite volume limits we determine the tensor form factor in the whole kinematical region accessible in the experiments. A set of synthetic data points, representing our results for $f_T^{D pi(K)}(q^2)$ for several selected values of $q^2$, is provided and the corresponding covariance matrix is also available. At zero four-momentum transfer we get $f_T^{D pi}(0) = 0.506 (79)$ and $f_T^{D K}(0) = 0.687 (54)$, which correspond to $f_T^{D pi}(0)/f_+^{D pi}(0) = 0.827 (114)$ and $f_T^{D K}(0)/f_+^{D K}(0)= 0.898 (50)$.
We study the three-body anti-triplet ${bf B_c}to {bf B_n}MM$ decays with the $SU(3)$ flavor ($SU(3)_f$) symmetry, where ${bf B_c}$ denotes the charmed baryon anti-triplet of $(Xi_c^0,-Xi_c^+,Lambda_c^+)$, and ${bf B_n}$ and $M(M)$ represent baryon and meson octets, respectively. By considering only the S-wave $MM$-pair contributions without resonance effects, the decays of ${bf B_c}to {bf B_n}MM$ can be decomposed into irreducible forms with 11 parameters under $SU(3)_f$, which are fitted by the 14 existing data, resulting in a reasonable value of $chi^2/d.o.f=2.8$ for the fit. Consequently, we find that the triangle sum rule of ${cal A}(Lambda_c^+to nbar K^0 pi^+)-{cal A}(Lambda_c^+to pK^- pi^+)-sqrt 2 {cal A}(Lambda_c^+to pbar K^0 pi^0)=0$ given by the isospin symmetry holds under $SU(3)_f$, where ${cal A}$ stands for the decay amplitude. In addition, we predict that ${cal B}(Lambda_c^+to n pi^{+} bar{K}^{0})=(0.9pm 0.8)times 10^{-2}$, which is $3-4$ times smaller than the BESIII observation, indicating the existence of the resonant states. For the to-be-observed ${bf B_c}to {bf B_n}MM$ decays, we compute the branching fractions with the $SU(3)_f$ amplitudes to be compared to the BESIII and LHCb measurements in the future.