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Hyperon Polarization in Inclusive Hadronic Production

Y. Kanazawa, Yuji Koike

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0012005

Abstract

A QCD formula for the polarization in the large-pT Λhyperon production in the unpolarized nucleon-nucleon collision at large xF is derived. We focus on the mechanism in which the chiral-odd spin-independent twist-3 quark distribution EF(x,x) becomes the source of the transversely polarized quarks fragmenting into the polarized Λ. A simple model estimate for that contribution shows the possibility that it gives rise to a sizable Λpolarization.

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