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The measurement of Lambda^0 hyperons polarization in nucleus-nucleus collisions is considered as one of possible tools to study the phase transition. Fixed target and collider experiments are discussed for the case of Lambda^0's production…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-11-18 V. P. Ladygin , A. P. Jerusalimov , N. B. Ladygina

We study the longitudinal polarization of hyperons and anti-hyperons at forward pseudorapidity, $2.5<\eta<4$, in singly polarized $pp$ collisions at RHIC energies by using different parameterizations of the polarized parton densities and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Wei Zhou , Shan-shan Zhou , Qing-hua Xu

We make a systematic study of $\Lambda$ hyperon polarizations in unpolarized lepton induced semi-inclusive reactions such as $e^-N\to e^-\Lambda X$ and $e^+e^-\to\Lambda h X$. We present the general form of cross sections in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-14 Kai-bao Chen , Zuo-tang Liang , Yu-kun Song , Shu-yi Wei

We study the polarization of hyperon in different processes in singly polarized $pp$ collisions, in particular its relation to the polarized parton distributions. We show that by measuring hyperon polarization in particularly chosen…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Qing-hua Xu , Zuo-tang Liang

The surprising polarisation of Lambdas and other hyperons measured in many unpolarised hadronic processes, p N --> Lambda X, has been a long standing challenge for QCD phenomenology. One possible explanation was suggested, related to non…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-07 Mauro Anselmino , Raj Kishore , Asmita Mukherjee

We demonstrate that spontaneous transverse polarization of Lambda baryon ($\Lambda$) production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation can be described using the transverse momentum dependent polarizing fragmentation functions (TMD PFFs). Using a simple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-18 Daniel Callos , Zhong-Bo Kang , John Terry

Using the most general, model independent form of effective Hamiltonian, the transverse polarization P_T of Lambda in Lambda_b -> Lambda l^+ l^- decay is studied. It is observed that the averaged <P_T> is very sensitive to the existence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 T. M. Aliev , A. Ozpineci , M. Savci , C. Yuce

We predict the polarization of Lambda and antiLambda hyperons in peripheral heavy ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energy, based on the assumption of local thermodynamical equilibrium at freeze-out. The polarization vector is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-11-21 F. Becattini , L. Csernai , D. J. Wang

Following a previous description of Lambda and Lambda-bar polarization in unpolarized p-p interactions, within a perturbative QCD factorization scheme with new polarizing fragmentation functions, here we investigate the transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Anselmino , D. Boer , U. D'Alesio , F. Murgia

The transverse polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons within unpolarized jets originates from the transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) fragmentation function $D_{1T}^\perp (z, p_T, \mu^2)$. In the vacuum environment, the QCD evolution of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-12 Xin-yu Qin , Yu-Kun Song , Shu-yi Wei

The polarization of Lambda, Anti-Lambda, Xi, and Anti-Xi hyperons along the angular momentum of the system has been measured in isobar collisions of Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV with the STAR detector at RHIC. The…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-05-14 The STAR Collaboration

Recent measurements using the CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab of the reactions $\vec\gamma + p \to K^+ + \vec\Lambda$ and $\vec\gamma + p \to K^+ + \vec\Sigma^0$ have been used to extract the spin transfer coefficients $C_x$ and $C_z$ for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-29 Reinhard Schumacher

We investigate the transverse polarization of the $\Lambda$ hyperon in the processes $e^+e^-\to\Lambda^\uparrow \pi^\pm X$ and $e^+e^-\to\Lambda^\uparrow K^\pm X$ within the framework of the transverse momentum dependent~(TMD)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-26 Hui Li , Xiaoyu Wang , Yongliang Yang , Zhun Lu

Results on $\Lambda$ hyperon production are reported for collisions of p(3.5 GeV) + Nb, studied with the High Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer (HADES) at SIS18 at GSI Helmholtzzentrum for Heavy-Ion Research, Darmstadt. The transverse…

We study the transverse polarization of hyperons produced in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering, $ep\to e\Lambda^\uparrow X$, in the framework of the collinear twist-3 factorization. The cross section from the twist-3 distribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-06 Yuji Koike , Kazuki Takada , Sumire Usui , Kenta Yabe , Shinsuke Yoshida

We present a thorough phenomenological analysis of the experimental data from Belle Collaboration for the transverse $\Lambda$ and $\bar\Lambda$ polarisation, measured in $e^+e^-$ annihilation processes, for the case of inclusive (plus a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-09 Umberto D'Alesio , Francesco Murgia , Marco Zaccheddu

Polarization properties of strange baryons produced in pp reactions, p + p -> p + Lambda^0 + K^+ and p + p -> p + Sigma^0 + K^$, near thresholds of the final states (p Lambda^0 K^+) and (p Sigma^0 K^+) are analysed relative to polarizations…

In this paper we study transverse polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in single-inclusive leptonic annihilation. We show that when the transverse momentum of the $\Lambda$ baryon is measured with respect to the thrust axis, a transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-06 Leonard Gamberg , Zhong-Bo Kang , Ding Yu Shao , John Terry , Fanyi Zhao

A QCD formula for the polarization in the large-p_T \Lambda hyperon production in the unpolarized nucleon-nucleon collision at large x_F is derived. We focus on the mechanism in which the chiral-odd spin-independent twist-3 quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Kanazawa , Yuji Koike

Multiple polarization observables must be measured to access the amplitude structure of pseudoscalar meson photoproduction off the proton. The hyperon-producing reactions are especially attractive to study, since the weak decays allow…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Reinhard Schumacher