Anti-Hyperon polarization in high energy pp collisions with polarized beams

Jul, 2007
17 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 78 (2008) 054007
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We study the longitudinal polarization of the Sigma_bar and Xi_bar anti-hyperons in polarized high energy pp collisions at large transverse momenta, extending a recent study for the Lambda_bar anti-hyperon. We make predictions by using different parametrizations of the polarized parton densities and models for the polarized fragmentation functions. Similar to the Lambda_bar polarization, the Xi_bar0 and Xi_bar+ polarizations are found to be sensitive to the polarized anti-strange sea in the nucleon. The Sigma_bar- and Sigma_bar+ polarizations show sensitivity to the light sea quark polarizations, \Delta \bar u(x) and \Delta \bar d(x), and their asymmetry.
  • 13.88.+e
  • 13.85.Ni
  • 13.87.Fh
  • p p: inclusive reaction
  • p: polarized beam
  • transverse momentum: high
  • polarization: longitudinal
  • antihyperon: hadroproduction
  • antihyperon: polarization
  • parton: momentum spectrum