The electromagnetic amplitudes in the $J/\psi$ and $\psi(2S)$ decays into spin-1/2 baryon-antibaryon pairs

Abstract

After investigating the decays of a charmonium $\psi = J/\psi, \psi(2S)$ into a spin-1/2 baryon-antibaryon $B \bar{B}$ pair, with the determination of the only parameter that gives the EM amplitude for neutral final states, in this work we focus our attention on the decays into charged baryons, whose EM amplitudes can be expressed in terms of a further parameter. By considering the BESIII data on the $e^+e^- \to p \overline p$ cross section we obtain a full parametrization for the EM amplitudes and make predictions on the cross section of the decays $e^+ e^- \to \Sigma^+ \overline \Sigma{}^-$, $e^+ e^- \to \Sigma^- \overline \Sigma{}^+$ and $e^+ e^- \to \Xi^- \overline \Xi{}^+$ at the $J/\psi$ and $\psi(2S)$ masses.