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Quark Flavor Separation in $\Lambda$-Baryon Fragmentation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

It is shown that neutrino and antineutrino deep inelastic scattering of unpolarized and polarized Λ\Lambda and Λˉ\bar{\Lambda} productions, can provide a clean separation of unpolarized and polarized fragmentation functions of a quark into a Λ\Lambda, for both light-flavor quarks and antiquarks and also for strange quarks. Combining with Λ\Lambda and Λˉ\bar{\Lambda} productions in polarized electron deep inelastic scattering, one can systematically measure or check the various flavor and spin dependent fragmentation functions. Such measurements can provide crucial tests of different predictions concerning the spin structure of hadrons and the quark-antiquark asymmetry of the nucleon sea.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9810517,
  title  = {Quark Flavor Separation in $\Lambda$-Baryon Fragmentation},
  author = {Bo-Qiang Ma and Jacques Soffer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9810517},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 latex pages, accepted for publication in PRL