INCLUSIVE CHARMED-BARYON DECAYS AND LIFETIMES

Citation
B. Guberina et B. Melic, INCLUSIVE CHARMED-BARYON DECAYS AND LIFETIMES, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C-PARTICLES AND FIELDS, 2(4), 1998, pp. 697-703
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields
ISSN journal
14346044
Volume
2
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
697 - 703
Database
ISI
SICI code
1434-6044(1998)2:4<697:ICDAL>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
We have quantitatively reanalyzed the inclusive charmed-baryon decays. New ingredients are the Voloshin preasymptotic effects in semileptoni c decays and the Cabibbo-subleading contributions to both semileptonic and nonleptonic decays. It has been found that the Cabbibo-subleading Voloshin contribution essentially improves the theoretical semilepton ic branching ratio of Lambda(c)(+), in agreement with experiment. The semileptonic branching ratios for Xi(c)(+) and Omega(c)(0) are found t o be large, i.e., of the order of 20%. The lifetimes hierarchy is in a good qualitative and even quantitative agreement with experiment exce pt for the Xi(c)(+) lifetime, which is somewhat smaller than the exper imental value. Future measurements, especially measurements of the sem ileptonic branching ratios for Omega(c)(0), Xi(c)(+) and Xi(c)(0) shou ld be decisive for the check of this approach.