Light-cone sum rules study on the purely nonfactorizable Λc+→Ξ0K+ decay

Abstract

We investigate the purely nonfactorizable Λc+→Ξ0K+ decay using light-cone sum rules. To extract the decay amplitudes, a three-point correlation function is defined and calculated at hadron and quark-gluon level, respectively. Both the W-exchange and the W-inward emission diagrams are considered in the quark-gluon level calculation, where the two-particle light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) of kaon are used as nonperturbative input. We obtain the decay amplitudes contributed from the twist-2 and twist-3 kaon LCDAs, respectively. The obtained P-wave amplitude is consistent with those predicted in the literature, while the S-wave one is much smaller. This significant difference between the S- and P -wave amplitudes leads to small up-down spin asymmetry, close to the experimental measurement. Published by the American Physical Society 2024