Exclusive semileptonic decays of bottom and charm baryons are considered within a relativistic three-quark model with a Gaussian shape for the baryon-three-quark vertex and standard quark propagators. We calculate the baryonic Isgur-Wise functions, decay rates and asymmetry parameters.
The reactions $Sigma_b^* to Lambda_b pi$, $Sigma_b to Lambda_b pi$, and $Xi_b^* to Xi_b pi$ are studied in the $^3P_0$ non-relativistic quark model with all the model parameters fixed in the sector of light quarks. The theoretical predictions for the decay widths $Gamma_{Sigma_b^* to Lambda_b pi}$ and $Gamma_{Sigma_b to Lambda_b pi}$ are consistent with the experimental data of the CDF Collaboration. Using as an input the recent mass of $Xi_b$ and the theoretical predictions mass of $Xi_b^{*}$, a narrow decay width about 1 MeV is predicted for the bottom baryon $Xi_b^*$. The work suggests that the $^3P_0$ quark dynamics is of independence of environments where heavy quarks may or may not be a component of baryons.
Exclusive nonleptonic decays of bottom and charm baryons are studied within a relativistic quark model. We include factorizing as well as nonfactorizing contributions to the decay amplitudes.
Latest results from a study of baryon ground and resonant states within relativistic constituent quark models are reported. After recalling some typical spectral properties, the description of ground states, especially with regard to the nucleon and hyperon electromagnetic structures, is addressed. In the following, recent covariant predictions for pion, eta, and kaon partial decay widths of light and strange baryon resonances below 2 GeV are summarized. These results exhibit a characteristic pattern that is distinct from nonrelativistic or relativized decay studies performed so far. Together with a detailed analysis of the spin, flavor, and spatial structures of the wave functions, it supports a new and extended classification scheme of baryon ground and resonant states into SU(3) flavor multiplets.
The semi-relativistic quark potential model is surprisingly powerful for heavy-light systems if the bound state equation is treated correctly using 1/m_Q expansion with heavy quark mass m_Q. We elucidate the reasons why our semi-relativistic model succeeds in predicting and reproducing all the mass spectra of heavy-light systems so far reported, D/D_s/B/B_s, by reviewing and comparing recent experimental data with the results of our model and others. Especially the mass spectra of the so-called D_{sJ}, i.e., D_{s0}^* and D_{s1}, are successfully reproduced only by our model but not by other models.
Spin dependent fragmentation functions for heavy flavor quarks to fragment into heavy baryons are calculated in a quark-diquark model. The production of intermediate spin 1/2 and 3/2 excited states is explicity included. The resulting $Lambda_b$ production rate and polarization at LEP energies are in agreement with experiment. The $Lambda_c$ and $Xi_c$ functions are also obtained. The spin independent $f_1(z)$ is compared to data. The integrated values for production rates agree with the data.