Studying Radiative Baryon Decays with the SU(3) Flavor Symmetry

Abstract

The weak and electromagnetic radiative baryon decays of octet $T_{8}$, decuplet $T_{10}$, single charmed anti-triplet $T_{c3}$ and sextet $T_{c6}$, single heavy bottomed anti-triplet $T_{b3}$ and sextet $T_{b6}$ are investigated by using SU(3) flavor symmetry irreducible representation approach. We analyze the contributions from a single quark transition $q_1\to q_2\gamma$ and $W$ exchange transitions, and find that the amplitudes could be easily related by SU(3) flavor symmetry in the $T_{b3,b6}$ weak radiative decays, $T_{c3,c6}$ weak radiative decays, $T_{10}\to T_{8}\gamma $ weak decays, $T_{10}\to T'_{10}\gamma $ weak decays and $T_{10}\to T_{8}\gamma $ electromagnetic decays. Nevertheless, the amplitude relations are a little complex in the $T_{8}\to T'_{8}\gamma$ and $T_{8}\to T_{10}\gamma$ weak decays due to quark antisymmetry in $T_{8}$ and $W$ exchange contributions. Predictions for branching ratios of $\Lambda^{0}_b\to n\gamma$, $\Xi^{-}_b\to \Xi^-\gamma$, $\Xi^{-}_b\to \Sigma^-\gamma$, $\Xi^{0}_b\to \Sigma^0\gamma$, $\Xi^{0}_b\to \Lambda^0\gamma$, $\Xi^{0}_b\to \Xi^0\gamma$, $\Xi^{*}\to \Xi\gamma$, $\Sigma^{*0}\to \Sigma^{0}\gamma$, $\Delta^0\to n\gamma$ and $\Delta^+\to p\gamma$ are given. The results in this work can be used to test SU(3) flavor symmetry approach in the radiative baryon decays by the future experiments at BESIII, LHCb and Belle-II.