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Excited hyperon in charmful weak decays
Phys. Rev. D 111, 114028 – Published 24 June, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/4g99-psnm
Abstract
We investigate the sextet -baryon decay processes , where represents the -, - and -wave excited hyperons in the spectroscopy. Using the constituent quark model, we obtain , which agrees with the previous studies to the order of magnitude. By identifying as , can be similarly significant. Additionally, and states exhibit production rates of 0.5, and (0.6, 0.8), respectively, relative to their ground-state counterpart. Notably, our findings suggest that are as large as , making them accessible to experiments at LHCb.
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