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

The doubly charmed baryon Ξcc⁺⁺ has been observed by LHCb through the non-leptonic decay modes of Ξcc⁺⁺→Λc⁺K⁻π⁺π⁺ and Ξc⁺π⁺ in 2017. After that, the experimentalists turn their attention to finding other doubly charmed baryons Ξcc⁺ and Ωcc⁺. In this work, we investigate the nonleptonic weak decays of doubly charmed baryons Bcc→ BcP, where Bcc denotes the doubly charmed baryons (Ξcc⁺⁺,Ξcc⁺,Ωcc⁺), Bc represents the singly charmed baryons ( B3̄, 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(Ξcc⁺⁺→Ξc⁺π⁺) B(Ξcc⁺⁺→Ξc⁺π⁺)=1.15±0.45 is consistent with the experimental results within statistical errors.