S-WAVE BOTTOM BARYONS

S-wave scattering of strangeness -3 baryons

Nonleptonic Weak Decays of Bottom Baryons

Cabibbo-allowed two-body hadronic weak decays of bottom baryons are analyzed. Contrary to the charmed baryon sector, many channels of bottom baryon decays proceed only through the external or internal W -emission diagrams. Moreover, W -exchange is likely to be suppressed in the bottom baryon sector. Consequently, the factorization approach suffices to describe most of the Cabibbo-allowed bottom...

Predictions for masses of bottom baryons

The recent observation of Σ±b (uub and ddb) and Ξ − b (dsb) baryons at the Tevatron within 2 MeV of our theoretical predictions provides a strong motivation for applying the same theoretical approach, based on modeling the color hyperfine interaction, to predict the masses of other bottom baryons which might be observed in the foreseeable future. For S-wave qqb states we predict M(Ωb) = 6052.1 ...

New Predictions for Charmed and Bottom Baryons

I review the recent proposal that there are new isotriplet heavy baryons with masses approximately 2380 MeV and 5760 MeV. This prediction follows from the application of heavy spin-flavor and light SU(3) symmetries to the observed charmed and bottom baryon states. It also entails assumptions about the spin and parity quantum numbers of the observed states which are different than is commonly su...

Excited-state spectroscopy of triply-bottom baryons from lattice QCD

The spectrum of baryons containing three b quarks is calculated in nonperturbative QCD, using the lattice regularization. The energies of ten excited bbb states with J = 1 2 + , 3 2 + , 5 2 + , 7 2 + , 1 2 − , and 3 2 − are determined with high precision. A domain-wall action is used for the up-, downand strange quarks, and the bottom quarks are implemented with NRQCD. The computations are done...