Measurement of the absolute branching fraction of the three-body decay $\Lambda_{c}^+ \to \Xi^{0}K^{+}\pi^{0}$ and search for $\Lambda_{c}^+ \to nK^+\pi^0$, $\Sigma^{0}K^{+}\pi^{0}$ and $\Lambda K^{+}\pi^{0}$

Abstract

The Cabbibo-favored decay $\Lambda_{c}^+ \to \Xi^{0}K^{+}\pi^{0}$ is studied for the first time using 6.1 fb$^{-1}$ of $e^+e^-$ collision data at center-of-mass energies between 4.600 and 4.840 GeV, collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider. With a double-tag method, the branching fraction of the three-body decay $\Lambda_{c}^+ \to \Xi^{0}K^{+}\pi^{0}$ is measured to be $(7.79 \pm 1.46 _{\rm} \pm0.71 _{\rm}) \times 10^{ - 3}$, where the first and second uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. The branching fraction of the two-body decay $\Lambda_{c}^+ \to \Xi(1530)^{0}K^+$ is $(5.99\pm1.04\pm0.29)\times10^{-3}$, which is consistent with the previous result of $(5.02\pm0.99\pm0.31)\times 10^{-3}$. In addition, the upper limit on the branching fraction of the doubly Cabbibo-suppressed decay $\Lambda_{c}^+ \to nK^+\pi^0$ is $7.1 \times 10^{-4}$ at the 90$\%$ confidence level. The upper limits on the branching fractions of $\Lambda_{c}^+ \to \Sigma^{0}K^{+}\pi^{0}$ and $\Lambda K^{+}\pi^{0}$ are also determined to be $1.8\times 10^{-3}$ and $ 2.0 \times 10^{-3}$, respectively.