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Predictions are made in the framework of the effective color field (ECF) model for polarization observables in p+A→ Λ-bar X, A + A → ΛX and p + Pb → pX reactions. The predictions can be checked in the polarization experiments at IHEP (SPASCHARM), JINR (NICA) and BNL (RHIC). Estimates of quark masses and anamolous chromomagnetic quark moments are given.
Preliminary results on the spin transfer to the Λ and Λ-bar hyperons measured by the HERMES Collaboration are presented. Longitudinal spin transfer directed along the virtual-photon momentum in the Λ rest frame is found to be D{sup Λ}{sub LL }= 0.19 ± 0.04{sub stat} ± 0.02{sub syst}, the transverse component being compatible with zero. For Λ-bar both longitudinal and transverse components are compatible with zero within statistical errors of ±0.1.
The longitudinal spin transfer D {sub LL }of Λ and Λ-bar hyperons is expected to be sensitive to the helicity distribution function of strange (anti-)quarks, and to the polarized fragmentation functions. We report new results on D {sub LL }, extracted from √s = 200 GeV polarized pp collisions recorded at the STAR detector during the 2009 RHIC run. These new results cover mid-rapidity |η| < 1.2, with extended p {sub T }up to 6 GeV/c.
Samples of Λ and Λ-bar hyperons produced in deep-inelastic muon scattering off {sup 6}LiD target were collected with the COMPASS experimental setup at CERN. The relative yields of Σ{sup -}(1385), Σ-bar {sup −}(1385), Σ-bar {sup +}(1385), Ξ{sup −}(1321), and Ξ-bar {sup +}(1321) hyperons decaying into the Λ( Λ-bar )π were measured. The yield ratios of heavy hyperons to Λ were found to be in the range 3.8%–5.6% with a precision of about 10%. The experimental values are used to tune the parameters of the LEPTO Monte-Carlo generator relevant for strange particle production.
BABAR has measured with unprecedented accuracy the e + e - → pp-bar and e + e - → ΛΛ-bar cross sections by means of the initial state radiation technique, which has the advantages of good efficiency and energy resolution, and full angular acceptance in the threshold region. A striking feature of these cross sections is their non-vanishing values at threshold. In the case of charged baryons, the phenomenon is well understood in terms of the Coulomb interaction between the outgoing baryon and antibaryon. However, such an effect is not expected for neutral baryons. We suggest a simple explanation for both charged and neutral baryon pairs based on Coulomb interactions at the valence quark level.
In this work the investigation of the space-time scales of the hadronization process in the framework of a string model is continued. The average formation lengths of several widely used species of baryons (antibaryons) such as p(p-bar), n(n-bar), {Delta}({Delta}-bar), {Lambda}({Lambda}-bar), and {Sigma}({Sigma}-bar) are studied. It is shown that they depend on electrical charges or, more precisely, on the quark contents of the hadrons. In particular, the average formation lengths of positively charged hadrons, for example, protons, are considerably larger than those of their negatively charged antiparticles, antiprotons. This statement for all nuclear targets and any values of the Bjorken scaling variable x{sub Bj} is fulfilled. The main mechanism is direct production. Additional production mechanism as a result of the decay of resonances gives small contribution. It is shown that the average formation lengths of protons (antiprotons) are slowly increasing (decreasing) functions of x{sub Bj}, whereas the ones of neutrons and antineutrons are slowly decreasing functions of x{sub Bj}. The shape and behavior of average formation lengths for baryons qualitatively coincide with the ones for pseudoscalar mesons obtained earlier.
In the near future experiments will be able to produce charmed hadrons almost at rest in the interior of an atomic nucleus. One of the most exciting perspectives is the possibility of studying charmonium in a dense medium. In the present communication we present results of a study that explores the possibility that J/{Psi} might be bound in a large nucleus through the excitation of intermediate states of D and D* mesons. We also present results of a recent prediction for the production of {Lambda}(bar sign){sub c}{sup -{Lambda}}{sub c}{sup +} in proton-antiproton annihilation experiments.
Recent experiments at RHIC have shown that in 200 GeV Au-Au collisions, the {Lambda} and {Lambda}-bar hyperons are produced with very small polarizations, almost consistent with zero. These results can be understood in terms of a model that we recently proposed. In this work, we show how this model may be applied in such collisions, and also will discuss the relation of our results with other models, in order to explain the experimental data.
(anti (ital p)) and (anti (Lambda)) production in central Si + Au collisions has been measured by E589 at the BNL-AGS. Preliminary (ital m)(sub (perpendicular)) spectra are presented for (anti (ital p))'s and (anti (Lambda))'s. The (ital dn/dy) distribution for (anti (ital p))'s is also presented. Based on the (anti (ital p)) and (anti (Lambda)) measurements, (anti (Lambda))/(anti (ital p)) ratios are calculated in the rapidity range of 1.1-1.5.
We present a study of 649 {+-} 35 e{sup +}e{sup -} {yields} c{bar c} events produced at {radical}s {approx} 10.6 GeV containing both a {Lambda}{sub c}{sup +} baryon and a {bar {Lambda}}{sub c}{sup -} antibaryon. The number observed is roughly four times that expected if the leading charmed hadron types are uncorrelated, confirming an observation by the CLEO Collaboration. We find a 2-jet topology in these events but very few additional baryons, demonstrating that the primary c and {bar c} are predominantly contained in a correlated baryon-antibaryon system. In addition to the charmed baryons we observe on average 2.6 {+-} 0.2 charged intermediate mesons, predominantly pions, carrying 65% of the remaining energy.