Published April 20, 2009 | Version v1
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Λ0 Polarization in Exclusive pp Reactions From the FNAL e690 Experiment

  • 1. Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)
  • 2. Universidad de Guanajuato, Division de Ciencias e Ingenierias, Departamento de Fisica, Leon GTO. 37150 (Mexico)
  • 3. Shasta College, Reading, California 96049 (United States)
  • 4. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 (United States)
  • 5. IBM, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (United States)
  • 6. Columbia University, Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, New York 10533 (United States)
  • 7. LLNL, Livermore, California 94551 (United States)
  • 8. Cognex Corp., Natic Massachusetts, 01760 (United States)
  • 9. University of Washington, Seatle, Washington, 98109 (United States)
  • 10. Universidad de Guanajuato, Instituto de Fisica (Mexico)
  • 11. OEO Corporation, Athens, Georgia, 30605 (United States)

Description

It is an experimental evidence that all baryons are created polarized from unpolarized p-nucleus collisions. So far, the origin of this polarization remains unexplained in spite of the experimental evidences accumulated in the past thirty years. Up to these days, Λ0 is the most studied baryon for polarization, for it is copiously produced in p--nucleus collisions at the energies of the principal high energy physics accelerators of the world. This paper is an overview of the experimental evidences accumulated on the polarization of Λ0 from unpolarized exclusive pp collisions as function of xF, PT, and M(Λ0K+) in the past fifteen years inside Fermilab e690 experiment, in the particular reactions pp→pΛ0K0π+, pp→ppΛ0Λ-0, pp→pΛ0K+, produced at 800 GeV.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
1116
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 97-100
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
13. Mexican school of particles and fields
Dates
2-11 Oct 2008
Place
Hermosillo (Mexico); San Carlos (Mexico)

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(c) 2009 American Institute of Physics