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Lambda polarization in unpolarized hadron reactions

M. Anselmino, D. Boer, U. D'Alesio, F. Murgia

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0010291

Abstract

The transverse polarization observed in the inclusive production of Lambda hyperons in the high energy collisions of unpolarized hadrons is tackled by considering a new set of spin and kT dependent quark fragmentation functions. Simple phenomenological expressions for these new ``polarizing fragmentation functions'' are obtained by a fit of the data on Lambda's and Lambdabar's produced in p-N processes.

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