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Using the self-analyzing decay of the $\Lambda$, the longitudinal spin transfer $D_{LL'}$ to the hyperon from a polarized electron beam scattering off an unpolarized proton target can be determined. For $\Lambda$s produced in the current…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-01-18 Matthew McEneaney

Using a simple quark-diquark model, we extract a set of unpolarized and polarized fragmentation functions for the $\Lambda$ based on the available unpolarized $\Lambda$ production data in $e^+ e ^- $ annihilation. It is found that there is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Jian-Jun Yang

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

We analyze experimental data for the production of Lambda baryons in e^+e^- annihilation in terms of scale dependent, QCD evolved, Lambda fragmentation functions. Apart from the vast majority of the data for which the polarization of an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 D. de Florian , M. Stratmann , W. Vogelsang

Hadron spin physics is now one of the most active fields of physics. Especially in the last ten years, great progress has been made both theoretically and experimentally that has considerably improved our knowledge of the spin structure of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Jiro Kodaira , Kazuhiro Tanaka

In order to obtain information about the polarized strange quark distribution, we studied the semi-inclusive $\Lambda_c / \bar{\Lambda}_c$ production in neutrino and polarized proton collisions. We found that these reactions are effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Kazutaka Sudoh , Toshiyuki Morii

We present a general analysis of the spin transfer for $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ production in deep-inelastic scattering of polarized charged leptons on the nucleon, and find that the pattern of different behaviors of $\Lambda$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Bo-Qiang Ma , Ivan Schmidt , Jacques Soffer , Jian-Jun Yang

Considering the possible interpretation of the Ellis-Jaffe sum rule violation that the strange quark in the polarized proton is remarkably polarized in the opposite direction of the proton spin, we investigate its implication in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Wei Lu , Bo-Qiang Ma

We calculate the polarization of Lambda and Anti-Lambda particles produced in deep inelastic polarized lepton scattering. We use two models: the naive quark model and a model in which SU(3)$_F$ symmetry is used to deduce the spin structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Ashery , H. J. Lipkin

The long-standing problem of transverse Lambda polarization in high-energy collisions of unpolarized hadrons can be tackled by considering new, spin and k_T-dependent quark fragmentation functions for an unpolarized quark into a polarized,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 M. Anselmino , D. Boer , U. D'Alesio , F. Murgia

We investigate the correlation of di-hadron productions between the current fragmentation region (CFR) and target fragmentation region (TFR) in deep inelastic scattering as a probe of the nucleon tomography. The QCD factorization and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-05 Yuxun Guo , Feng Yuan

We investigate $\Lambda$ production in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering using a polarized lepton beam and find that the spin transfer is significantly suppressed by target fragmentation. As further demonstrated by a model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-13 Xiaoyan Zhao , Zuo-tang Liang , Tianbo Liu , Ya-jin Zhou

The Lambda polarization in muon neutrino charged current interactions has been measured in the NOMAD experiment. We observe negative polarization along the W - boson direction which is enhanced in the target fragmentation region: Px (xF <…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Dmitry V. Naumov

In order to extract the behavior and magnitude of the spin-dependent gluon distribution, we propose a semi-inclusive $\Lambda_c^+$ production using unpolarized lepton beams and polarized proton targets. The correlation between the target…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 N. I. Kochelev , T. Morii , T. Yamanishi

We briefly report our recent progress on the study of the polarized fragmentation functions of $\Lambda$ hyperon in unpolarized semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scatterings and electron-positron annihilations at low energies. In particular, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-18 Shu-yi Wei

We discuss the production of polarized hadrons in polarized lepton nucleon interactions and show that the helicity density matrix of the hadron, when measurable, can give information on the spin structure of the nucleon and the spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Anselmino , M. Boglione , J. Hansson , F. Murgia

We study the prospects for HERA with polarized electron and/or proton beams to determine the functions describing the fragmentation of a longitudinally polarized parton into a polarized Lambda baryon. We examine both semi-inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. de Florian , M. Stratmann , W. Vogelsang

We study the polarization of the anti-Lambda particle in polarized high energy pp collisions at large transverse momenta. The anti-Lambda polarization is found to be sensitive to the polarization of the anti-strange sea of the nucleon. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Qing-hua Xu , Zuo-tang Liang , Ernst Sichtermann

We consider models for the spin transfers to $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons produced in lepton-nucleon deep-inelastic scattering. We make predictions for longitudinal $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ spin transfers for the COMPASS…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 John Ellis , Aram Kotzinian , Dmitry Naumov , Mikhail Sapozhnikov

Ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions create the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) known as the hottest, least viscous, and most vortical fluid ever produced in terrestrial laboratories. Its vortical structure has been uncovered through the spin…