We find evidence for the semileptonic baryonic decay $B^-to pbar pell^-bar u_ell$ ($ell=e,mu$), based on a data sample of 772 million $Bbar B$ pairs collected at the $Upsilon(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy electron-positron collider. A neural-network based hadronic $B$-meson tagging method is used in this study. The branching fraction of $B^-to pbar pell^-bar u_ell$ is measured to be $(5.8^{+2.4}_{-2.1}textrm{(stat.)}pm 0.9textrm{(syst.)})times 10^{-6}$ with a significance of 3.2$sigma$, where lepton universality is assumed. We also estimate the corresponding upper limit: $mathcal{B}(B^-to pbar pell^-bar u_ell) < 9.6times 10^{-6}$ at the 90% confidence level. This measurement helps constrain the baryonic transition form factor in B decays.
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