Strong decay widths of S- and P-wave singly- and doubly-heavy charm and bottom baryons

Abstract We present a study of two-body decay widths of heavy baryons into another heavy baryon and a light pseudoscalar meson in the framework of the non-relativistic quark model in combination with the elementary emission model for the strong couplings. The present study includes the decays of 1 S - and 1 P -wave baryons with one or two heavy quarks, either charm ( c ) or bottom ( b ). The flavor, spin and orbital contributions are discussed explicitly as well as selection rules for forbidden decays. The relative partial widths are given by the appropriate flavor SU (3) isoscalar factors. The total widths are compared with the available experimental data as well as with other theoretical studies. The calculated widths of singly-heavy baryons are found to be in reasonable agreement with the observed widths. The decay widths of doubly-heavy baryons are suppressed with respect to those of the singly-heavy baryons by the ratios of the quark masses appearing in the orbital contributions.