Λ_b \to ΛJ/ψdecay in perturbative QCD

Details Λ_b \to ΛJ/ψdecay in perturbative QCD Λ_b \to ΛJ/ψdecay in perturbative QCD

2001-12-11

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0112145v1

Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 074030

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

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Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.65.074030

We calculate the amplitudes involved in the heavy baryon nonleptonic decay $\Lambda_b \rar \Lambda J/\psi$ using perturbative QCD factorization theorem, which are expressed as convolutions of hard $b$ quark decay amplitudes with the $\Lambda_b$ baryon, $\Lambda$ baryon and $J/\psi$ meson distribution amplitudes. It is found that nonfactorizable contributions dominate over factorizable ones. Because of soft cancellation in pairs of nonfactorizable diagrams, the $\Lambda_b \rar \Lambda J/\psi$ decay is characterized by a large scale, such that perturbative QCD is applicable. Employing the distribution amplitudes determined in our previous works and from QCD sum rules, we derive the branching ratio $B(\Lambda_b \rar \Lambda J/\psi)=(1.7 \sim 5.3)\times 10^{-4}$ in agreement with data. We predict an asymmetry parameter $\alpha= -0.17 \sim -0.14$ associated with the anisotropic angular distribution of the $\Lambda$ baryons produced in polarized $\Lambda_b$ baryon decays.

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