Searching for possible evidences of new physics in $Bto V_1 V_2$

We explore the decays of $Bto V_1V_2$ ($V_{1,2}= (rho, omega,K^*, phi)$ and $B= (B^0, B^+,B_s)$) with transverse polarizations. We explicitly evaluate the eigenstates of T-odd scalar operators involving spins for the first time, which offer physical insight among the T violating observables. Based on the helicity suppression of tree operators for transverse polarizations in the standard model (SM), we deduce that $Delta phi_p = phi_parallel - phi_perp=0$ with $phi_{perp,parallel}$ the complex phases of the transverse amplitudes. In contrast, the experiments show that $Delta phi _p (B^0 to K^{*0} omega)= -0.84pm 0.54$, which would be a signal of new physics. There is also a discrepancy between our result in the SM and the experimental data for the transverse polarized branching ratio in $B^0 to K^{*0} omega$. In addition, by counting the helicity flips, we obtain that $sin(phi_p ) approx 0$ in $Bto V_1T_2$ with $T_2$ an arbitrary spin-$n$ meson ($nge1$).

Non-leptonic two-body decays of $Lambda_b^0$ in light-front quark model

We study the non-leptonic two-body weak decays of $Lambda_b^0 to p M$ with $ M=(pi^-,K^-)$ and $(rho^-,K^{*-})$ in the light-front quark model under the generalized factorization ansatz. By considering the Fermi statistic between quarks and determining spin-flavor structures in baryons, we calculate the branching ratios (${cal B}$s) and CP-violating rate asymmetries ($mathcal{A}_{CP}$s) in the decays. Explicitly, we find that ${cal B}( Lambda_b^0 to p pi^- ,pK^-)=(4.18pm0.15pm0.30, 5.76pm0.88pm0.23)times10^{-6}$ and ${mathcal{A}_{CP}}( Lambda_b^0 to p pi^- ,,pK^-)=(-3.60pm0.14pm0.14, 6.36pm0.21pm0.18)%$ in comparison with the data of ${cal B}( Lambda_b^0 to p pi^- ,pK^-)=(4.5pm0.8, 5.4pm1.0)times10^{-6}$ and ${mathcal{A}_{CP}}( Lambda_b^0 to p pi^- ,pK^-)=(-2.5pm 2.9, -2.5pm2.2)%$ given by the Particle Data Group, respectively. We also predict that ${cal B}( Lambda_b^0 to p rho^-,pK^{*-} )=(12.13pm3.27pm0.91, 2.58pm0.87pm0.13)times 10^{-6}$ and ${mathcal{A}_{CP}}( Lambda_b^0 to p rho^-,pK^{*-} )=(-3.32pm0.00pm0.14,19.25pm0.00pm0.80)%$, which could be observed by the experiments at LHCb.

Semileptonic weak decays of anti-triplet charmed baryons in the light-front formalism

We systematically study the semileptonic decays of ${bf B_c} to {bf B_n}ell^+ u_{ell}$ in the light-front constituent quark model, where ${bf B_c}$ represent the anti-triplet charmed baryons of $(Xi_c^0,Xi_c^+,Lambda_c^+)$ and ${bf B_n}$ correspond to the octet ones. We determine the spin-flavor structures of the constituents in the baryons with the Fermi statistics and calculate the decay branching ratios (${cal B}$s) and averaged asymmetry parameters ($alpha$s) with the helicity formalism. In particular, we find that ${cal B}( Lambda_c^+ to Lambda e^+ u_{e}, ne^+ u_{e})=(3.55pm1.04, 0.36pm0.15)%$, ${cal B}( Xi_c^+ to Xi^0 e^+ u_{e},Sigma^0 e^+ u_{e},Lambda e^+ u_{e})=(11.3pm3.35), 0.33pm0.09,0.12pm0.04%$ and ${cal B}( Xi_c^0 to Xi^- e^+ u_{e},Sigma^- e^+ u_{e})=(3.49pm0.95,0.22pm0.06)%$. Our results agree with the current experimental data. Our prediction for ${cal B}( Lambda_c^+ to n e^+ u_{e})$ is consistent with those in the literature, which can be measured by the charm-facilities, such as BESIII and BELLE. Some of our results for the $Xi_c^{+(0)}$ semileptonic channels can be tested by the experiments at BELLE as well as the ongoing ones at LHCb and BELLEII.

Consequences of Neutrinoless Double Decays Dominated by Short Range Interactions

We investigate some consequences if neutrinoless double beta decays of nuclei are dominated by short range interactions. To illustrate our results, we assume that such decays proceed mainly through short range interactions involving two-W-bosons exchanges and confine ourselves to only include new scalars without new gauge interactions for SM fermions. For the neutrino mass problem we propose to solve it by adopting that the active light neutrinos have predominantly Dirac masses and the small Majorana masses induced by the new scalars render them pseudo(quasi)-Dirac particles. This particular aspect of neutrinos may be detectable in the next generation of neutrino oscillation experiments and/or neutrino telescopes. If so this opens a new connection between neutrinoless double beta decays and neutrino physics. We also noted the new physics signals such as high charged scalar states that can be explored in hadron colliders. In particular, we find that a high energy e^- e^- collider will be very useful in testing the origin of lepton number violation which complements neutrinoless double decays studies.

Semileptonic decays of $Lambda_c^+$ in dynamical approaches

We study the semileptonic decays of $Lambda_c^+ to Lambda(n)ell^+ u_{ell}$ in two relativistic dynamical approaches of the light-front constituent quark model (LFCQM) and MIT bag model (MBM). By considering the Fermi statistic between quarks and determining spin-flavor structures in baryons along with the helicity formalism in the two different dynamical models, we calculate the branching ratios (${cal B}$s) and averaged asymmetry parameters ($alpha$s) in the decays. Explicitly, we find that ${cal B}( Lambda_c^+ to Lambda e^+ u_{e})=(3.36pm0.87,3.48)%$ and ${alpha}( Lambda_c^+ to Lambda e^+ u_{e})=(-0.97pm0.03,-0.83)$ in (LFCQM, MBM), in comparison with the data of ${cal B}( Lambda_c^+ to Lambda e^+ u_{e})=(3.6pm0.4)%$ and ${alpha}( Lambda_c^+ to Lambda e^+ u_{e})=-0.86pm 0.04$ given by the Particle Data Group, respectively. We also predict that ${cal B}( Lambda_c^+ to n e^+ u_{e})=(0.57pm0.15, 3.6pm1.5)times 10^{-3}$ and ${alpha}( Lambda_c^+ to n e^+ u_{e})=(-0.98pm0.02,-0.96pm0.04)$ in LFCQM with two different scenarios for the momentum distributions of quarks in the neutron, and ${cal B}( Lambda_c^+ to n e^+ u_{e})= 0.279times 10^{-2}$ and ${alpha}( Lambda_c^+ to n e^+ u_{e})=-0.87$ in MBM, which could be tested by the ongoing experiments at BESIII, LHCb and BELLEII.

Mixing effects of $Sigma^0-Lambda^0$ in $Lambda_c^+$ decays

We analyze the mixing between $Sigma^0$ and $Lambda^0$ based on the baryon masses. We distinguish the contributions from QCD and QED in the baryon mass splittings. We find that the mixing angle between $Sigma^0$ and $Lambda^0$ is $(2.07pm 0.03)times 10^{-2} $, which leads to the decay branching fraction and up-down asymmetry of $Lambda_c^+ to Sigma^0 e^+ u_e$ to be ${cal B}(Lambda_c^+ to Sigma^0 e^+ u_e)=(1.5pm 0.2)times 10^{-5}$ and $alpha(Lambda_c^+ to Sigma^0 e^+ u_e)=-0.86pm 0.04$, respectively. Moreover, we obtain that $Delta {cal B}equiv {cal B}(Lambda_c^+to Sigma^0 pi^+) - {cal B}(Lambda_c^+to Sigma^+pi^0)=(3.8pm 0.5)times 10^{-4}$ and $Delta alpha equivalpha(Lambda_c^+to Sigma^0 pi^+) -alpha(Lambda_c^+to Sigma^+pi^0)=(-1.6pm 0.7)times10^{-2}$, which should vanish without the mixing.

Charmed Baryon Weak Decays with Vector Mesons

We give a systematic study of ${bf B}_cto {bf B}_n V$ decays, where ${bf B}_c$ and $ {bf B}_n$ correspond to the anti-triplet charmed and octet baryons, respectively, while $V$ stand for the vector mesons. We calculate the color-symmetric contributions to the decays from the effective Hamiltonian with the factorization approach and extract the anti-symmetric ones based on the experimental measurements and $SU(3)_F$ flavor symmetry. We find that most of the existing experimental data for ${bf B}_cto {bf B}_n V$ are consistent with our fitting results. We present all the branching ratios of the Cabbibo allowed, singly Cabbibo suppressed and doubly Cabbibo suppressed decays of ${bf B}_cto {bf B}_n V$. The decay parameters for the daughter baryons and mesons in ${bf B}_cto {bf B}_n V$ are also evaluated. In particular, we point out that the Cabbibo allowed decays of $Lambda_c^+ to Lambda^0 rho^+$ and $ Xi_c^0 to Xi^- rho^+$ as well as the singly Cabbibo suppressed ones of $Lambda_c^+ to Lambda^0 K^{*+}$, $Xi_c^+ to Sigma^+ phi$ and $Xi_c^0to Xi^- K^{*+}$ have large branching ratios and decay parameters with small uncertainties, which can be tested by the experimental searches at the charm facilities.

Asymmetries of anti-triplet charmed baryon decays

We analyze the decay processes of ${bf B}_c to {bf B}_n M$ with the $SU(3)_F$ flavor symmetry and spin-dependent amplitudes, where ${bf B}_c({bf B}_n)$ and $M$ are the anti-triplet charmed (octet) baryon and nonet meson states, respectively. In the $SU(3)_F$ approach, it is the first time that the decay rates and up-down asymmetries are fully and systematically studied without neglecting the ${cal O}(overline{15})$ contributions of the color anti-symmetric parts in the effective Hamiltonian. Our results of the up-down asymmetries based on $SU(3)_F$ are quite different from the previous theoretical values in the literature. In particular, we find that the up-down symmetry of $ alpha(Lambda_c^+to Xi^0 K^+)_{SU(3)} = 0.94^{+0.06}_{-0.11}$, which is consistent with the recent experimental data of $0.77pm0.78$ by the BESIII Collaboration, but predicted to be zero in the literature. We also examine the $K_S^0-K_L^0$ asymmetries between the decays of ${bf B}_c to {bf B}_n K_S^0$ and ${bf B}_c to {bf B}_n K_L^0$ with both Cabibbo-allowed and doubly Cabibbo-suppressed transitions.

Three-body charmed baryon Decays with SU(3) flavor symmetry

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.

Simultaneous extractions of $|V_{ub}|$ and $|V_{cb}|$ with only the exclusive $Lambda_b$ decays

We perform the simultaneous $|V_{ub}|$ and $|V_{cb}|$ extractions with only the exclusive $Lambda_b$ decays of $Lambda_bto (p,Lambda_c^+)mubar u_mu$, $Lambda_bto ppi^-$ and $Lambda_bto Lambda_c^+ (pi^-, D^-)$. We obtain that $|V_{ub}|=(3.7pm 0.3)times 10^{-3}$ and $|V_{cb}|=(45.9pm 2.7)times 10^{-3}$. Our value of $|V_{ub}|$ is larger than that of $(3.27pm 0.15pm 0.16pm 0.06)times 10^{-3}$, previously extracted by the LHC Collaboration from the exclusive $Lambda_b$ decays also, but nearly identical to $(3.72pm 0.19)times 10^{-3}$ from the exclusive $B$ decays. On the other hand, our extracted result of $|V_{cb}|$ favors the value of $(42.2pm 0.8)times 10^{-3}$ from the inclusive $B$ decays.