Longitudinal Polarization of Lambda and anti-Lambda Hyperons in Lepton-Nucleon Deep-Inelastic Scattering

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dc.creatorEllis, John
dc.creatorKotzinian, Aram
dc.creatorNaumov, Dmitry
dc.creatorSapozhnikov, Mikhail
dc.date2007-02-21
dc.date2007-10-10
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:59:08Z
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dc.descriptionWe consider models for the spin transfers to $Λ$ and $\barΛ$ hyperons produced in lepton-nucleon deep-inelastic scattering. We make predictions for longitudinal $Λ$ and $\barΛ$ spin transfers for the COMPASS experiment and for HERA, and for the spin transfer to $Λ$ hyperons produced at JLAB. We demonstrate that accurate measurements of the spin transfers to $Λ$ and $\barΛ$ hyperons with COMPASS kinematics have the potential to probe the intrinsic strangeness in the nucleon. We show that a measurement of $\barΛ$ polarisation could provide a clean probe of the spin transfer from $\bar{s}$ quarks and provides a new possibility to measure the antistrange quark distribution function. COMPASS data in a domain of x that has not been studied previously will provide valuable extra information to fix models for the nucleon spin structure. The spin transfer to $\barΛ$ hyperons, which could be measured by the COMPASS experiment, would provide a new tool to distinguish between the SU(6) and Burkardt-Jaffe (BJ) models for baryon spin structure. In the case of the HERA electron-proton collider experiments with longitudinally-polarised electrons, the separation between the target and current fragmentation mechanisms is more clear. It provides a complementary probe of the strange quark distribution and helps distinguish between the SU(6) and BJ models for the $Λ$ and $\barΛ$ spin structure. Finally, we show that the spin transfer to $Λ$ hyperons measured in a JLAB experiment would be dominated by the spin transfer of the intrinsic polarised-strangeness in the remnant nucleon, providing an independent way to check our model predictions.
dc.descriptionminor changes after accepted to EPJC
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0702222
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0702222
dc.identifierEur.Phys.J.C52:283-294,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0381-9
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/206462
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleLongitudinal Polarization of Lambda and anti-Lambda Hyperons in Lepton-Nucleon Deep-Inelastic Scattering
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