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Anti-Lambda polarization in high energy pp collisions with polarized beam

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We study the polarization of the anti-Lambda particle in polarized high energy pp collisions at large transverse momenta. The anti-Lambda polarization is found to be sensitive to the polarization of the anti-strange sea of the nucleon. We make predictions using different parameterizations of the polarized quark distribution functions. The results show that the measurement of longitudinal anti-Lambda polarization can distinguish different parameterizations, and that similar measurements in the transversely polarized case can give some insights into the transversity distribution of the anti-strange sea of nucleon.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0511061,
  title  = {Anti-Lambda polarization in high energy pp collisions with polarized beam},
  author = {Qing-hua Xu and Zuo-tang Liang and Ernst Sichtermann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0511061},
  year   = {2008}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures