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Polarization in Hadronic ΛHyperon Production and Chiral-Odd Twist-3 Distribution

Y. Kanazawa, Yuji Koike

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0012225

Abstract

Polarization of the Λhyperon produced with a large transverse momentum in the unpolarized nucleon-nucleon collision is analyzed in the framework of QCD factorization. We focus on the mechanism in which the soft-gluon component of the chiral-odd spin-independent twist-3 quark distribution EF(x,x) becomes a source of the polarized quark fragmenting into the polarized Λ. Our simple model estimate for this contribution indicates that it gives rise to a significant Λpolarization at large xF. This is in parallel with the observation that the soft gluon pole mechanism gives rise to a large single transverse spin asymmetry in the pion production at xF 1.

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