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Spin-Momentum Correlations in Inclusive Semileptonic Decays of Polarized $\Lambda_b$ Baryons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-02-22 v2

Abstract

We consider spin-momentum correlations between the spin of the bottom baryon Λb\Lambda_{\mathrm{b}} and the momenta of its decay products in its inclusive semileptonic decay. We define several polar and azimuthal spin-momentum correlation measures in different event coordinate systems. The values of the spin-momentum correlation measures are calculated up to O(1/mb2){\cal O}(1/m_b^2) using the standard OPE und HQET methods. Some of the measures turn out to be sufficiently large to make them good candidates for a determination of the polarization of the Λb\Lambda_{\mathrm{b}} in e.g. Z\mathrm{Z} decays.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9810511,
  title  = {Spin-Momentum Correlations in Inclusive Semileptonic Decays of Polarized $\Lambda_b$ Baryons},
  author = {Jürgen G. Körner and Dan Pirjol},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9810511},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

13 pages, 2 figures, more numerical results added; version published as Phys. Rev. D60, 014021 (1999)