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In this article, we construct the six-quark currents with the $J^P=0^+$, $0^-$, $1^+$ and $1^-$ to study the $Lambda_c$$Lambda_c$ dibaryon and $Lambda_c$$bar{Lambda}_c$ baryonium states via QCD sum rules. We consider the vacuum condensates up to dimension 16 and truncation of the order $mathcal{O}(alpha_s^k )$ with $kleq3$. The predicted masses are $5.11_{-0.12}^{+0.15}$GeV, $4.66_{-0.06}^{+0.10}$GeV, $4.99_{-0.09}^{+0.10}$GeV $4.68^{+0.08}_{-0.08}$GeV for the $J^P=0^+$, $0^-$, $1^+$ and $1^-$ states, respectively, which can be confronted to the experimental data in the future considering the high integrated luminosity at the center-of-mass energy about $4.8,rm{GeV}$ at the BESIII. We find the terms with $frac{3}{2}< k leq 3$ do play a tiny role, and we can ignore these terms safely in the QCD sum rules.
We evaluate the partial decay widths for the semileptonic $Lambda_b to bar u_l l Lambda_c(2595)$ and $Lambda_b to bar u_l l Lambda_c(2625)$ decays from the perspective that these two $Lambda^*_c$ resonances are dynamically generated from the $DN$ and $D^*N$ interaction with coupled channels. We find that the ratio of the rates obtained for these two reactions is compatible with present experimental data and is very sensitive to the $D^* N$ coupling, which becomes essential to obtain agreement with experiment. Together with the results obtained for the $Lambda_b to pi^- Lambda^*_c$ reactions, it gives strong support to the molecular picture of the two $Lambda^*_c$ resonances and the important role of the $D^*N$ component neglected in prior studies of the $Lambda_c(2595)$ from the molecular perspective.
We study the implications for $Lambda_b to Lambda_c^*ellbar{ u}_ell$ and $Lambda_b to Lambda_c^*pi^-$ $[Lambda_c^*=Lambda_c(2595)$ and $Lambda_c(2625)]$ decays that can be deduced from heavy quark spin symmetry (HQSS). Identifying the odd parity $Lambda_c(2595)$ and $Lambda_c(2625)$ resonances as HQSS partners, with total angular momentum--parity $j_q^P=1^-$ for the light degrees of freedom, we find that the ratios $Gamma(Lambda_brightarrowLambda_c(2595)pi^-)/Gamma(Lambda_brightarrowLambda_c(2625)pi^-)$ and $Gamma(Lambda_brightarrow Lambda_c(2595) ell bar{ u}_ell)/ Gamma(Lambda_brightarrowLambda_c(2625) ell bar{ u}_ell)$ agree, within errors, with the experimental values given in the Review of Particle Physics. We discuss how future, and more precise, measurements of the above branching fractions could be used to shed light into the inner HQSS structure of the narrow $Lambda_c(2595)$ odd-parity resonance. Namely, we show that such studies would constrain the existence of a sizable $j^P_q=0^-$ component in its wave-function, and/or of a two-pole pattern, in analogy to the case of the similar $Lambda(1405)$ resonance in the strange sector, as suggested by most of the approaches that describe the $Lambda_c(2595)$ as a hadron molecule. We also investigate the lepton flavor universality ratios $R[Lambda_c^*] = {cal B}(Lambda_b to Lambda_c^* tau,bar u_tau)/{cal B}(Lambda_b to Lambda_c^* mu,bar u_mu)$, and discuss how $R[Lambda_c(2595)]$ may be affected by a new source of potentially large systematic errors if there are two $Lambda_c(2595)$ poles.
Using 121.4 fb^{-1} of data collected with the Belle detector at the Y(5S) resonance at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e^+e^- collider, we report evidence for the B_s^0 -> Lambda_c^+ Lambda-bar pi^- decay mode with a measured branching fraction (3.6 +- 1.1[stat.] {+0.3 -0.5}[syst.] +- 0.9[Lambda_c^+] +- 0.7[N_{Bs}]) * 10^{-4} and a significance of 4.4 standard deviations. This is the first evidence for a baryonic B_s^0 decay.
We report the first observation of two charmed strange baryons that decay into $Lambda_c^+ K^-pi^+$. The broader of the two states is measured to have a mass of $2978.5pm 2.1pm 2.0$ MeV/$c^2$ and a width of $43.5pm 7.5pm 7.0$ MeV/$c^2$. The mass and width of the narrow state are measured to be $3076.7pm 0.9pm 0.5$ MeV/$c^2$ and $6.2pm 1.2pm 0.8$ MeV/$c^2$, respectively. We also perform a search for the isospin partner states that decay into $Lambda_c^+ K_S^0pi^-$ and observe a significant signal at the mass of $3082.8pm 1.8pm 1.5$ MeV/$c^2$. The data used for this analysis was accumulated at or near the $Upsilon(4S)$ resonance, using the Belle detector at the $e^+ e^-$ asymmetric-energy collider KEKB. The integrated luminosity of the data sample used is $461.5 ~mathrm{fb}^{-1}$.
A lattice QCD determination of the $Lambda_c to N$ vector, axial vector, and tensor form factors is reported. The calculation was performed with $2+1$ flavors of domain wall fermions at lattice spacings of $aapprox 0.11:{rm fm},:0.085:{rm fm}$ and pion masses in the range $230:{rm MeV} lesssim m_pi lesssim 350$ MeV. The form factors are extrapolated to the continuum limit and the physical pion mass using modified $z$ expansions. The rates of the charged-current decays $Lambda_c to n, e^+ u_e$ and $Lambda_c to n, mu^+ u_mu$ are predicted to be $left( 0.405 pm 0.016_{,rm stat} pm 0.020_{,rm syst} right)|V_{cd}|^2 :{rm ps}^{-1}$ and $left( 0.396 pm 0.016_{,rm stat} pm 0.020_{,rm syst} right)|V_{cd}|^2 :{rm ps}^{-1}$, respectively. The phenomenology of the rare charm decay $Lambda_c to p, mu^+ mu^-$ is also studied. The differential branching fraction, the fraction of longitudinally polarized dimuons, and the forward-backward asymmetry are calculated in the Standard Model and in an illustrative new-physics scenario.