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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Structure and production of lambda baryons |
Author: | Boros, C. Londergan, J. Thomas, A. |
Citation: | Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 1999; 61(1):014007- |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Issue Date: | 1999 |
ISSN: | 0556-2821 1550-2368 |
Statement of Responsibility: | C. Boros, J. T. Londergan, A. W. Thomas |
Abstract: | We discuss the quark parton structure of the Λ baryon and the fragmentation of quarks into Λ baryons. We show that the hyperfine interaction, responsible for the Δ-N and Σ0-Λ mass splittings, leads not only to sizable SU(3) and SU(6) symmetry breaking in the quark distributions of the Λ, but also to significant polarized non-strange quark distributions. The same arguments suggest flavor asymmetric quark fragmentation functions and non-zero polarized non-strange quark fragmentation functions. The calculated fragmentation functions give a good description of all measured observables. We predict significant positive Λ polarization in semi-inclusive DIS experiments while models based on SU(3) flavor symmetry predict zero or negative Λ polarization. Our approach also provides a natural explanation for the dependence of the maximum of the ξ=ln(1/z) spectrum on the mass of the particles produced in e+e- annihilation. |
Rights: | ©1999 American Physical Society |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.61.014007 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.61.014007 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 2 Special Research Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter publications |
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