Proton-Antiproton Annihilation into a Lambda_c-Antilambda_c Pair
Abstract
The process p-pbar -> Lambda_c-Antilambda_c is investigated within the handbag approach. It is shown that the dominant dynamical mechanism, characterized by the partonic subprocess u-ubar -> c-cbar factorizes in the sense that only the subprocess contains highly virtual partons, a gluon to lowest order of perturbative QCD, while the hadronic matrix elements embody only soft scales and can be parameterized in terms of helicity flip and non-flip generalized parton distributions. Modelling these parton distributions by overlaps of light-cone wave functions for the involved baryons we are able to predict cross sections and spin correlation parameters for the process of interest.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0905.2561,
title = {Proton-Antiproton Annihilation into a Lambda_c-Antilambda_c Pair},
author = {A. T. Goritschnig and P. Kroll and W. Schweiger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.2561},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
39 pages, 7 figures, problems with printout of figures resolved, Ref. 33 and referring sentences in section 4 changed