Coupled-channel study of gamma p --> K+ Lambda
Abstract
A coupled-channel (CC) approach has been developed to investigate kaon photoproduction on the nucleon. In addition to direct K+ Lambda production, our CC approach accounts for strangeness production including K+ Lambda final state interactions with both pi0 p and pi+ n intermediate states. Calculations for the gamma p --> K+ Lambda reaction have been performed, and compared with the recent data from SAPHIR, with emphasis on the CC effects. We show that the CC effects are significant at the level of inducing 20% changes on total cross sections; thereby, demonstrating the need to include pi N channels to correctly describe the gamma p --> K+ Lambda reaction.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0104052,
title = {Coupled-channel study of gamma p --> K+ Lambda},
author = {Wen-Tai Chiang and F. Tabakin and T. -S. H. Lee and B. Saghai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0104052},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, 6 eps figures, uses elsart.cls, submitted to Phys.Lett.B; v2: added paragraph in section 1