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Title: Heavy quark symmetries and the decays B r arrow baryon+antibaryon

Journal Article · · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States)
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States) Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg (Germany)
  2. Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States) Department of Physics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529 (United States) Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, Virginia 23606 (United States)
  3. Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States)

We enumerate the form factors necessary to describe the two-body baryonic decays of {ital B} mesons. We use the symmetries of the heavy quark effective theory to arrive at some relations among these form factors, when at least one of the daughter baryons is heavy.

DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84ER40150; AC02-76ER03064
OSTI ID:
7048481
Journal Information:
Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Vol. 45:3; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English