  Recently the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN reported on the measurement of the
branching ratio R(Lambda_b) = Gamma(Lambda_b(0) -> psi(2S)
Lambda(0))/Gamma(Lambda_b(0) -> J/psi Lambda(0)). The measured branching ratio
R(Lambda_b) = 0.501 pm 0.033$ (stat) pm 0.019 (syst) was found to be lower than
the covariant quark model prediction of R(Lambda_b) = 0.8 pm 0.1 calculated by
us recently. We present a detailed analysis of the branching ratio R(Lambda_b)
using a model-independent framework for the heavy-to-light form factors based
on results from our previos papers.
