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The Flavor and Spin Structure of Hyperons from Quark Fragmentation

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

Abstract

We systematically study the hadron longitudinal polarizations of the octet baryons at large zz from quark fragmentations in e+ee^+e^--annihilation, polarized charged lepton deep inelastic scattering (DIS) process, and neutrino (antineutrino) DIS process, based on predictions of quark distributions for the octet baryons in the SU(6) quark-spectator-diquark model and a perturbative QCD based counting rule analysis. We show that the e+ee^+e^--annihilation and polarized charged lepton DIS process are able to distinguish between the two different predictions of the hyperon polarizations. We also find that the neutrino/antineutrino DIS process is ideal in order to study both the valence content of the hyperons and the antiquark to hyperon (quark to anti-hyperon) fragmentations, which might be related to the sea content of hyperons.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0008295,
  title  = {The Flavor and Spin Structure of Hyperons from Quark Fragmentation},
  author = {Bo-Qiang Ma and Ivan Schmidt and Jacques Soffer and Jian-Jun Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0008295},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

32 latex pages, 11 figures, a misprint in Table 1 corrected, reference updated, to appear in PRD