1. Asymmetries in the production of Λc+ and Λc− baryons in 500 GeV/c π− nucleon interactions
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S. M. Yang, R. A. Burnstein, Kevin Stenson, S. Yoshida, A. Rafatian, C. Zhang, H.S. Carvalho, N. Witchey, M. V. Purohit, A. Nguyen, K. C. Peng, A.B. d'Oliveira, A. Fernandez, D.C. Langs, S. MayTal-Beck, B. Quinn, J. R. T. de Mello Neto, A.K.S. Santha, E.M. Aitala, A. Napier, K. Denisenko, D. Yi, R. Weiss-Babai, G. Hurvits, R. A. Sidwell, D. A. Sanders, R. J. Stefanski, N. K. Copty, A.K. Tripathi, I. Bediaga, G. Blaylock, K. Thorne, J. C. Anjos, A. J. Slaughter, T. Carter, L. M. Cremaldi, E. Wolin, D. Mihalcea, S. B. Bracker, N. R. Stanton, F.R.A. Simão, A. C. dos Reis, J. Magnin, A. J. Schwartz, C. L. Darling, J.J. Reidy, B. Lundberg, B. T. Meadows, R. Zaliznyak, M. Sheaff, M. D. Sokoloff, G. Herrera, P.A. Kasper, Sudeshna Banerjee, S. Devmal, P. R. Burchat, D. J. Summers, R. H. Milburn, L.P. Perera, K. Gounder, K. O'Shaughnessy, J. M. De Miranda, Alberto Santoro, J. Solano, Daniel Ashery, S. Amato, G. F. Fox, H. A. Rubin, S. Takach, S. Radeztsky, S. Watanabe, A.M. Halling, Simon Kwan, P. Gagnon, C. James, J. A. Appel, N. W. Reay, J. Leslie, J. Wiener, and C. Göbel
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Lambda ,Asymmetry ,Baryon ,Nuclear physics ,symbols.namesake ,Pi ,symbols ,Feynman diagram ,Production (computer science) ,Fermilab ,Nucleon ,media_common - Abstract
We present a measurement of asymmetries in the production of Λ c + and Λ c − baryons in 500 GeV/ c π − -nucleon interactions from the E791 experiment at Fermilab. The asymmetries were measured as functions of Feynman x ( x F ) and transverse momentum squared ( p T 2 ) using a sample of 1 819±62 Λ c 's observed in the decay channel Λ c + → pK − π + . We observe more Λ c + than Λ c − baryons, with an asymmetry of (12.7±3.4±1.3)% independent of x F and p T 2 in our kinematical range (−0.1⩽ x F ⩽0.6 and 0.0⩽ p T 2 ⩽8.0 (GeV/ c ) 2 ). This Λ c asymmetry measurement is the first with data in both the positive and negative x F regions.
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- 2000
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