The Reaction anti-p p ---> anti-Lambda Lambda in the meson exchange picture

Oct 25, 1991
47 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.C 45 (1992) 931-946
Report number:
  • KFA-IKP-TH-1991-31

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Abstract: (APS)
A study of the strangeness production process p¯p→Λ¯Λ at threshold and intermediate energies has been performed doing a full coupled-channel (p¯p,Λ¯Λ) calculation. The elastic part of the p¯p and Λ¯Λ interactions has been derived from a one-boson-exchange version of the Bonn NN potential and a corresponding extension to the hyperon-nucleon case whereas the annihilation part is taken into account by introducing suitable optical potentials. The transition interaction between p¯p and Λ¯Λ is based on K- and K*-meson exchange. A reasonably good description of empirical cross sections as well as polarization data is achieved. It is demonstrated that the results are quite sensitive even to short-range modifications of the channel interactions. We also compare our model with other approaches and suggest a new experiment which would be able to check the very different predictions of the meson-exchange and constituent quark model, respectively.
  • anti-p p: annihilation
  • annihilation: anti-p p
  • Lambda: pair production
  • pair production: Lambda
  • meson: exchange
  • exchange: meson
  • partial wave analysis: coupled channel
  • differential cross section: angular dependence
  • angular dependence: differential cross section
  • analyzing power