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光生过程中$Ξ^-$偏振的首次测量

First Measurement of $Ξ^-$ Polarization in Photoproduction

J. Bono, L. Guo., B. Raue

摘要:

尽管对超子的光生研究已有几十年,但其产生机制和激发态的光谱仍然是未知的。虽然宇称破缺弱衰变的超子提供了一种手段来测量它们的极化,这可能有助于辨别它们的生产机制和识别它们的激发光谱,但由于低生产截面,没有这样的研究一直是可能的光生双奇异重子。然而,通过利用反应$γp \to K^+ K^+ Ξ^-$,我们首次测量了从圆偏振实光子(表征为$C_x$和$C_z$)到反冲$Ξ^-$的激发极化$P$和转移极化。这些数据是使用杰斐逊实验室的CEBAF大型接受光谱仪(CLAS)获得的,光子能量从刚刚超过阈值(2.4 GeV)到5.45 GeV。这些第一次的测量进行比较,并显示出广泛同意,与模型预测级联光生通过衰变的中间超子共振,通过相对论介子交换产生的收益,提供了一个新的一步,在理解的生产和极化的双奇异重子。

英文摘要:

Despite decades of studies of the photoproduction of hyperons, both their production mechanisms and their spectra of excited states are still largely unknown. While the parity-violating weak decay of hyperons offers a means of measuring their polarization, which could help discern their production mechanisms and identify their excitation spectra, no such study has been possible for doubly strange baryons in photoproduction, due to low production cross sections. However, by making use of the reaction $γp \to K^+ K^+ Ξ^-$, we have measured, for the first time, the induced polarization, $P$, and the transferred polarization from circularly polarized real photons, characterized by $C_x$ and $C_z$, to recoiling $Ξ^-$s. The data were obtained using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at Jefferson Lab for photon energies from just over threshold (2.4 GeV) to 5.45 GeV. These first-time measurements are compared, and are shown to broadly agree, with model predictions in which cascade photoproduction proceeds through the decay of intermediate hyperon resonances that are produced via relativistic meson exchange, offering a new step forward in the understanding of the production and polarization of doubly-strange baryons.

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