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Phys. Rev. D 47, 4963–4968 (1993)

Heavy mass expansion in ΛbΛc decays

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Thomas Mannel
Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstrasse 9, 6100 Darmstadt, Germany

Winston Roberts
Department of Physics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529 and Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, Virginia 23606

Received 11 November 1992; published in the issue dated 1 June 1993

We point out that in the decays of the Λb to Λc one can find predictions which, in the framework of the 1/mc expansion, do not receive corrections in any order of 1/mc. We discuss QCD corrections to these predictions and examine some of the consequences for nonleptonic decays.

© 1993 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.47.4963
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.47.4963
PACS:
11.30.Hv, 13.30.Ce, 13.30.Eg, 14.20.Jn