Published 1980 | Version v1
Journal article

Polarization at high transverse momentum through weak interaction and its interference with strong interaction

  • 1. Karl-Marx-Universitaet, Leipzig (German Democratic Republic). Sektion Physik

Description

At transverse momenta of typical 20 to 40 GeV/c the hard scattering of quarks leads to partially polarized jets. The responsable mechanisms are W+- and Z0 exchange and their interference with gluon exchange. For the jet fragmentation we employ a model with favoured and disfavoured fragmentation according to broken SU(6). For vector mesons and Λ particles a modest polarization is predicted of the order up to approx. 8%. (orig.)

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Journal Title
Z. Phys., C
Journal Volume
6
Journal Issue
4
Series
Z. Phys., C.
Journal Page Range
317-327
ISSN
0170-9739