Lambda hyperon production and polarization in collisions of p(3.5 GeV)+Nb

0428663 - ÚJF 2015 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Agakishiev, G. - Arnold, O. - Balanda, A. - Belver, D. - Belyaev, A. V. - Berger-Chen, J. C. - Blanco, A. - Böhmer, M. - Boyard, J. L. - Cabanelas, P. - Chernenko, S. - Dybczak, A. - Epple, E. - Fabbietti, L. - Krása, Antonín - Křížek, Filip - Kugler, Andrej - Sobolev, Yuri, G. - Tlustý, Pavel - Wagner, Vladimír … Total 98 authors
Lambda hyperon production and polarization in collisions of p(3.5 GeV)+Nb.
European Physical Journal A. Roč. 50, č. 5 (2014), s. 81. ISSN 1434-6001. E-ISSN 1434-601X
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA13-06759S; GA MŠMT LG14004
Institutional support: RVO:61389005
Keywords : heavy ion collisions * HADES * spectrometer
Subject RIV: BG - Nuclear, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Colliders
Impact factor: 2.736, year: 2014

Results on. hyperon production are reported for collisions of p(3.5 GeV) + Nb, studied with the High-Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer (HADES) at SIS18 at GSI Helmholtzzentrum for Heavy-Ion Research, Darmstadt. The transverse mass distributions in rapidity bins are well described by Boltzmann shapes with a maximum inverse slope parameter of about 90 MeV at a rapidity of y = 1.0, i.e. slightly below the center-of-mass rapidity for nucleon-nucleon collisions, y(cm) = 1.12. The rapidity density decreases monotonically with increasing rapidity within a rapidity window ranging from 0.3 to 1.3. The Lambda phase-space distribution is compared with results of other experiments and with predictions of two transport approaches which are available publicly. None of the present versions of the employed models is able to fully reproduce the experimental distributions, i.e. in absolute yield and in shape. Presumably, this finding results from an insufficient modelling in the transport models of the elementary processes being relevant for Lambda production, rescattering and absorption. The present high-statistics data allow for a genuine two-dimensional investigation as a function of phase space of the self-analyzing Lambda polarization in the weak decay Lambda -> p pi(-). Finite negative values of the polarization in the order of 5-20% are observed over the entire phase space studied. The absolute value of the polarization increases almost linearly with increasing transverse momentum for p(t) > 300 MeV/c and increases with decreasing rapidity for y < 0.8.
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