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We point out that measuring longitudinal polarizations of different hyperons produced in lepton induced reactions are ideal to study the spin transfer of the fragtmenting quark to produced hadron in high energy hadronization processes. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Zuo-tang Liang , Chun-xiu Liu

The flavor and helicity distributions of the $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons for both valence and sea quarks are calculated in a perturbative QCD (pQCD) based model. We relate these quark distributions to the fragmentation functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 Bo-Qiang Ma , Ivan Schmidt , Jacques Soffer , Jian-Jun Yang

We consider the polarization of Lambda + Lambda-bar baryons produced in polarized Deep Inelastic Scattering at leading order, with various spin configurations: longitudinally polarized leptons and unpolarized nucleon; unpolarized leptons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Anselmino , M. Boglione , F. Murgia

The analysis\cite{ohkuma:1} of helicity transfer to $\Lambda_{c}^{+}$ in polarized proton collisions is extended to the proton helicity correlations with the $\Lambda_{c}^{+}$ transverse polarization in the production plane (parameter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 V. L. Rykov , K. Sudoh

We perform a study on the struck quark to the $\Lambda$-hyperon fragmentation processes by taking into account the anti-quark fragmentations and intermediate decays from other hyperons. We concentrate on how the longitudinally polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-09 Yujie Chi , Bo-Qiang Ma

In the 1970s, an unexpected transverse $\Lambda$ polarization in unpolarized proton-Beryllium collisions was discovered, which initiated extensive studies on spin phenomena in high-energy physics. Over the past five decades, similar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-06 Zhoudunming Tu

The longitudinal spin transfer represents the probability density of producing longitudinally polarized hadrons from longitudinally polarized quarks or circularly polarized gluons. It thus was usually measured in polarized reactions or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-22 Hao-Cheng Zhang , Shu-Yi Wei

Spin transfer in high energy fragmentation process is determined by the hadronization mechanism and spin structure of hadrons.It can be studied by measuring the polarizations of hyperons and/or vector mesons in e+e- annihilation, in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Zuo-Tang Liang

Longitudinal polarization of Lambda produced in $e^+e^-$ annihilation at LEP energies is calculated in a picture for the spin content of Lambda which is consistent with the polarized deep inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering data and SU(3)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Boros , Liang Zuo-tang

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

The global and local spin polarization measurements of $\Lambda$ ($\bar{\Lambda}$) hyperons by STAR and ALICE Collaborations open up an immense interest in investigating the spin polarization dynamics in heavy-ion collisions. Recent studies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-30 Bhagyarathi Sahoo , Captain R. Singh , Raghunath Sahoo

We calculate the contribution to the polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in relativistic nuclear collisions at high energy from the decays of $\Sigma^*(1385)$ and $\Sigma^0$, which are the predominant sources of $\Lambda$ production besides…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 F. Becattini , Gaoqing Cao , Enrico Speranza

We make a detailed study of the longitudinal polarization of hyperons and anti-hyperons in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering. We present the numerical results for spin transfer in quark fragmentation processes, analyze…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-30 Shan-shan Zhou , Ye Chen , Zuo-tang Liang , Qing-hua Xu

The difference between the $\Lambda$ and $\bar \Lambda$ longitudinal spin transfers in the semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering process is intensively studied. The study is performed in the current fragmentation region, by considering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-18 Yujie Chi , Xiaozhen Du , Bo-Qiang Ma

The spin transfer from vertically polarized beam protons to Lambda or Sigma hyperons of the associated strangeness production pp -> pK Lambda (Sigma) is described with the depolarization coefficient D_NN. As the polarization of the hyperons…

We study the production of polarized $\Lambda$ hyperon in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering off an unpolarized target. We include the cases in which the $\Lambda$ hyperon is longitudinally polarized or transversely polarized, and in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 Yongliang Yang , Zhun Lu

In this work, we address the problem of longitudinal spin polarization of the $\Lambda$ hyperons produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We combine a relativistic kinetic-theory framework that includes spin degrees of freedom treated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-09 Soham Banerjee , Samapan Bhadury , Wojciech Florkowski , Amaresh Jaiswal , Radoslaw Ryblewski

The longstanding problem of explaining the observed polarization of Lambda hyperons inclusively produced in the high energy collisions of unpolarized hadrons is tackled by considering spin and k_T dependent quark fragmentation functions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Anselmino , D. Boer , U. D'Alesio , F. Murgia

We have studied the spin polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in heavy ion collisions at center-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV and $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV carried out at RHIC and LHC colliders. We have calculated the mean spin…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-25 Andrea Palermo , Eduardo Grossi , Iurii Karpenko , Francesco Becattini

Longitudinal polarizations of different kinds of hyperons produced in e+e- annihilation at LEP I and LEP II energies in different event samples are calculated using two different pictures for the spin structure of hyperon: that drawn from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Chun-xiu Liu , Zuo-tang Liang