The study of weak decays of doubly charmed baryons within rescattering mechanism

The doubly charmed baryon ₂₂^++ has been observed by LHCb through the non-leptonic decay modes of ₂₂^++₂^+K^-^+^+ and ₂^+^+ in 2017. After that, the experimentalists turn their attention to finding other doubly charmed baryons ₂₂^+ and ₂₂^+. In this work, we investigate the nonleptonic weak decays of doubly charmed baryons B₂₂ B₂P, where B₂₂ denotes the doubly charmed baryons (₂₂^++, ₂₂^+, ₂₂^+), B₂ represents the singly charmed baryons (B₃, B₆) and P is the light pseudoscalar. For these non-leptonic decay modes, their short-distance contributions can be accurately estimated in theoretical calculations. However, dealing with the long-distance contributions for final-state-interaction effects is challenging. To address this, we use the rescattering mechanism to calculate the long-distance contributions and first derive the whole hadronic loop contributions for these two-body nonleptonic decays of doubly charmed baryons. Then the decay widths and branching ratios of the 45 nonleptonic decays of doubly charmed baryon are predicted. Among that, the ratio of the branching ratios RB= B (₂₂^{++₂^+^+) }{ B (₂₂^++₂^+^+) }=1. 150. 45 is consistent with the experimental results within statistical errors.