| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 37, 2012
MESON 2012 – 12th International Workshop on Production, Properties and Interaction of MESONS
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| Article Number | 01008 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Plenary talks | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20123701008 | |
| Published online | 06 December 2012 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20123701008
Final State Interactions and Polarization Observables in the Reaction pp → pKΛ
Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum-Jülich GmbH
a e-mail: m.roeder@fz-juelich.de
Due to the lack of high quality hyperon beams, final state interactions in hyperon production reactions are a compelling tool to study hyperon-nucleon interactions. The COSY-TOF experiment has recently been upgraded in order to reconstruct the pK+Λ final state with sufficient precision to determine the spin triplet pΛ scattering length with a polarized proton beam. We find an unexpected behavior of the K+ analyzing power which prevents the extraction method to be used with the available statistics. A theoretical explanation is pending. Furthermore, the polarized beam together with the self analyzing decay of the Λ allows us to determine the Λ depolarization. This is especially sensitive to K+ and π exchange in the production mechanism. Our finding verifies, to a large extent, the result from DISTO [2] that has so far been the only measurement close to the production threshold.
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