Nonleptonic decays or charmed baryons are discussed in the SU (8) @SU (:'\) co1oc quark model. The Lil=l/:2 rub of hyperon decay:i is explained by 15 and 20'' dominance and charmed baryon decays occur through 20" clommantly. Also X particles of coc;m1c ray event::; are Identified \Yitb charrned baryon~ or charn1ed 1nesons, respective1y, accorc]jng tn their lifetimes, and tk: charmed baryons are assrgned to A,+(cnp) and Az 0 (cni.), 3* of C = 1, 1 ':2+ baryon:-:;. l'vfore than ten years ago, SLT ( 4) was l1rst introduced 1 l as the symmetr\" group vvhich contains SU(3) as a subgroup. Then, it hild no experimental support. However the sitwttion has be'cn changed by the cosmic ray event observed by Niu, ~Iikumo and l\!Ieacla'J in 197]. et al. 3 l have proposed that this C'.-ent indicates the existence of a new q uantc:1 number; this quzEJtum num.ber is called cha:·m. Theoretically, and IVIaiani'J (GIJ\!f) have discussed that ch.:1rmed quark is also red in oi·der to understand JS = 2 and JS=foO, JQ = 0 weak processes. ')~Lis idea has been ca rriecl out." The disco\·eries of gzruge fheorists and rnany investigations haYc .!(:3.1)"' and cj/(3.7) 7 J ha\·e stimulated mc;·e ,. ,• l·callSUC discussion~ on ~.._)[I(4) sche111e. J:\ccordin~!, to this scherne the present authors haYc discussed the nonle;1tonic t\'. .>body weak of charmed mesonf, in Lhe qu:ul~ model.sJ In a previoclS paper, GLVI weak currents ancl Okubo-Zweig-Tizuka (OZI) rule 9 l are :cssumecl and two types of clizcgrams are considered as dominant diagrams. Furti1er the rates o£ the most probable decays of ocharmed mesons hal'e been calculat::d to be of the orcleT d 10 11 sec-\ which 1s far from the lifetime, -:c=4X10-11 sec, of tl1e first e\cent observed by Niu et al. In this paper \'\'e apply the previous model to nonleptonic decays of 1/2' charmed baryons, which may be alternative candidates for the event of Niu et d. This is rather straightforward application of the first model of the present authors.81' 10l The low-lying baryons (JP=~1;2~ and 3/2~) are described as 120 representa-at Australian National University on March 13, 2015 http://ptp.oxfordjournals.org/ Downloaded from In order to calculate the amplitudes of baryon decays we ought to know the \Va\'e functions of baryons. Baryons are described as 120 ( =:J 56) of SU (8)