Establishing CP violation in $b$-baryon decays

Abstract

The $CP$ violation (CPV) in the baryon system has not yet been definitively established. We demonstrate that individual partial-wave CPV in the $\Lambda_b\to p\pi^-,pK^-$ decays can exceed $10\%$, but the destruction between different partial waves results in small net direct CPV as observed in current experiments. There is thus high possibility of identifying CPV in $b$-baryon decays through measurements of partial-wave CPV. The above observation is supported by the first full QCD calculation of two-body hadronic $\Lambda_b$ baryon decays with controllable uncertainties in the perturbative QCD formalism.