Off-shell effects in the electromagnetic production of strangeness

Dec, 1997
38 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.C 58 (1998) 75-90
e-Print:
Report number:
  • DAPNIA-SPHN-97-65,
  • LYCEN-9753

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Abstract:
Previous approaches to the photo- and electro-production of strangeness off the proton, based upon effective hadronic Lagrangians, are extended here to incorporate the so called off-shell effects inherent to the fermions with spin >= 3/2. A formalism for intermediate-state, spin 3/2, nucleonic and hyperonic resonances is presented and applied to the processes γ+p>K++Λ\gamma + p ---> K^{+} + \Lambda, for EγlabE_{\gamma}^{lab} <= 2.5 GeV, e+p>e+K++Λe + p ---> e' + K^+ + \Lambda, as well as the branching ratio for the crossed channel reaction K+p>γ+ΛK^- + p ---> \gamma + \Lambda, with stopped kaons. The sensitivity, from moderate to significant, of various observables to such effects are discussed.
Note:
  • 38 pages in LaTeX2e-RevTeX + 8 postscript figures Report-no: DAPNIA/SPhN-97-65, LYCEN 9753
  • photon p: exclusive reaction
  • electron p: exclusive reaction
  • photon: polarized beam
  • strange particle: electroproduction
  • strange particle: photoproduction
  • K- p: exclusive reaction
  • at rest
  • photon: emission
  • branching ratio
  • effective Lagrangian