Direct CP violation in internal W-emission dominated baryonic B decays

The observation of CP violation has been experimentally verified in numerous \(B\) decays but is yet to be confirmed in final states with half-spin particles. We focus our attention on baryonic \(B\)-meson decays mediated dominantly through internal \(W\)-emission processes and show that they are promising processes to observe for the first time the CP violating effects in \(B\) decays to final states with half-spin particles. Specifically, we study the \(\bar B^0\to p\bar p\pi^0(\rho^0)\) and \(\bar B^0\to p\bar p\pi^+\pi^-\) decays. We obtain \({\cal B}(\bar B^0\to p\bar p\pi^0)=(5.0\pm 2.1)\times 10^{-7}\), in agreement with current data, and \({\cal B}(\bar B^0\to p\bar p\rho^0)\simeq {\cal B}(\bar B^0\to p\bar p\pi^0)/3\). Furthermore, we find \({\cal A}_{CP}(\bar B^0\to p\bar p\pi^0,p\bar p\rho^0,p\bar p\pi^+\pi^-) =(-16.8\pm 5.4,-12.6\pm 3.0,-11.4\pm 1.9)\%\). With measured branching fractions \({\cal B}(\bar B^0\to p\bar p\pi^0,p\bar p\pi^+\pi^-)\sim {\cal O}(10^{-6})\), we point out that \({\cal A}_{CP}\sim -(10-20)\%\) can be new observables for CP violation, accessible to the Belle~II and/or LHCb experiments.