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Phys Rev Lett. 2003 Apr 04;90(13):131804. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.131804. Epub 2003 Apr 04.

First measurement of transferred polarization in the exclusive ep-->e'K+Lambda--> reaction.

Physical review letters

D S Carman, K Joo, M D Mestayer, B A Raue, G Adams, P Ambrozewicz, E Anciant, M Anghinolfi, D S Armstrong, B Asavapibhop, G Audit, T Auger, H Avakian, H Bagdasaryan, J P Ball, S P Barrow, M Battaglieri, K Beard, M Bektasoglu, M Bellis, C Bennhold, N Bianchi, A S Biselli, S Boiarinov, B E Bonner, S Bouchigny, R Bradford, D Branford, W J Briscoe, W K Brooks, V D Burkert, C Butuceanu, J R Calarco, B Carnahan, A Cazes, C Cetina, L Ciciani, R Clark, P L Cole, A Coleman, D Cords, P Corvisiero, D Crabb, H Crannell, J P Cummings, E DeSanctis, P V Degtyarenko, H Denizli, L Dennis, R DeVita, K V Dharmawardane, K S Dhuga, C Djalali, G E Dodge, D Doughty, P Dragovitsch, M Dugger, S Dytman, O P Dzyubak, M Eckhause, H Egiyan, K S Egiyan, L Elouadrhiri, A Empl, P Eugenio, R Fatemi, G Fedotov, R J Feuerbach, J Ficenec, T A Forest, H Funsten, S J Gaff, M Gai, M Garçon, G Gavalian, S Gilad, G P Gilfoyle, K L Giovanetti, P Girard, E Golovach, C I O Gordon, K Griffioen, S Grimes, M Guidal, M Guillo, L Guo, V Gyurjyan, C Hadjidakis, R S Hakobyan, J Hardie, D Heddle, P Heimberg, F W Hersman, K Hicks, R S Hicks, M Holtrop, J Hu, C E Hyde-Wright, B Ishkhanov, M M Ito, D Jenkins, J H Kelley, J D Kellie, M Khandaker, K Y Kim, K Kim, W Kim, A Klein, F J Klein, A V Klimenko, M Klusman, M Kossov, L H Kramer, Y Kuang, S E Kuhn, J Kuhn, J Lachniet, J M Laget, D Lawrence, J Li, K Livingston, A Longhi, K Lukashin, J J Manak, C Marchand, T Mart, S McAleer, J McCarthy, J W C McNabb, B A Mecking, S Mehrabyan, J J Melone, C A Meyer, K Mikhailov, R Minehart, M Mirazita, R Miskimen, V Mokeev, L Morand, S A Morrow, M U Mozer, V Muccifora, J Mueller, L Y Murphy, G S Mutchler, J Napolitano, R Nasseripour, S O Nelson, S Niccolai, G Niculescu, I Niculescu, B B Niczyporuk, R A Niyazov, M Nozar, G V O'Rielly, A K Opper, M Osipenko, K Park, K Paschke, E Pasyuk, G Peterson, N Pivnyuk, D Pocanic, O Pogorelko, E Polli, S Pozdniakov, B M Preedom, J W Price, Y Prok, D Protopopescu, L M Qin, G Riccardi, G Ricco, M Ripani, B G Ritchie, F Ronchetti, P Rossi, D Rowntree, P Rubin, F Sabatié, K Sabourov, C Salgado, J Santoro, V Sapunenko, R A Schumacher, V S Serov, Y G Sharabian, J Shaw, S Simionatto, A V Skabelin, E S Smith, L C Smith, D I Sober, M Spraker, A Stavinsky, S Stepanyan, P Stoler, M Taiuti, S Taylor, D J Tedeschi, U Thoma, R Thompson, L Todor, C Tur, M Ungaro, M F Vineyard, A V Vlassov, K Wang, L B Weinstein, H Weller, D P Weygand, C S Whisnant, E Wolin, M H Wood, A Yegneswaran, J Yun, B Zhang, J Zhao, Z Zhou,

Affiliations

  1. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA.

PMID: 12689277 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.131804

Abstract

The first measurements of the transferred polarization for the exclusive e-->p-->e(')K+Lambda--> reaction have been performed at Jefferson Laboratory using the CLAS spectrometer. A 2.567 GeV beam was used to measure the hyperon polarization over Q2 from 0.3 to 1.5 (GeV/c)(2), W from 1.6 to 2.15 GeV, and over the full K+ center-of-mass angular range. Comparison with predictions of hadrodynamic models indicates strong sensitivity to the underlying resonance contributions. A nonrelativistic quark-model interpretation of our data suggests that the ssmacr; quark pair is produced with spins predominantly antialigned. Implications for the validity of the most widely used quark-pair creation operator are discussed.

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