Inclusive production of K* and Ε* resonances in the pp interactions at 360 GeV/c at European hybrid spectrometers

The inclusive production of strange meson and baryon resonances in 360 GeV/c pp interactions have been studied. Cross sections for K*+(892) are estimated to be 4.42 ± 0.62 mb and 2.54 ± 0.47 mb, and those for Σ+(1385) and Σ-(1385) are 0.67 ± 0.11 mb and 0.26 ± 0.07 mb, respectively. Longitudinal and transverse momentum distributions for K*(892) and Σ(1385) are presented as well as for their decay products Ks0 and Λ. It is shown that approximately 50 % of all Ks0 are decay products of K*, and more than 28 % of all Λ originate from Σ*± decays. Distributions over XF and pT2 variables of indirect Ks0 and Λ mainly reproduce the shape of the corresponding distributions for all Ks0 and Λ