Exclusive J/Psi and Psi'decays into baryon-antibaryon pairs

Abstract

Within a perturbative approach we investigate decays of charmonium states into baryon-antibaryon pairs. Using a recently proposed wave function for the nucleon and suitable generalizations of it to the hyperons and decouplet baryons, we obtain the decay widths for the baryon-antibaryon channels in reasonable agreement with data. An important difference to previous work is the use of the c-quark mass in the perturbative calculation instead of the charmonium mass. As a consequence of this feature our approach possesses, the J/Psi and the Psi' decay widths do not scale with a high power of the ratio of their masses.

Comments: 20 pages, 7 postscript figures, amstex