Strangeness distributions in hadronic collisions

The distribution of strangeness versus rapidity is studied in the multichain fragmentation model and in the one chain fragmentation model. It is shown that the multichain model describes rightly theK ⁺ p strangeness distribution data.     

The influence of direct <Emphasis Type="Italic">D</Emphasis>-meson production on the determination of the nucleon strangeness asymmetry via dimuon events in neutrino experiments

Experimentally, the production of oppositely charged dimuon events by neutrino and antineutrino deep inelastic scattering (DIS) is used to determine the strangeness asymmetry inside a nucleon. Here we point out that the direct production of a D-meson in DIS may have a substantial influence on the measurement of nucleon strangeness distributions. Direct D-meson production is via heavy quark recombination (HQR) and via light-quark fragmentation from perturbative QCD (LQF-P). To see the influence precisely, we compute the direct D-meson productions via HQR and LQF-P quantitatively and estimate their corrections to the analysis of the strangeness asymmetry. The results show that HQR has a stronger effect than LQF-P does, and the former may influence the experimental determination of the nucleon strangeness asymmetry.     

\Lambda, \bar{\Lambda} polarization and spin transfer in lepton deep-inelastic scattering

The flavor and helicity distributions of the and hyperons for both valence and sea quarks are calculated in a perturbative QCD (pQCD) based model. We relate these quark distributions to the fragmentation functions of and , and calculate the z-dependence of the longitudinal spin transfer to and in lepton deep-inelastic scattering (DIS). It is shown that the spin transfer to the is compatible with the first HERMES results at DESY, and further tests are suggested. We also make predictions for the z-dependence of the and longitudinal polarizations in neutrino (antineutrino) DIS processes. We investigate the sea contribution to the fragmentation functions, and we test a possible scenario where the sea quarks in (or the sea antiquarks in ) are negatively polarized, whereas the sea antiquarks in the (or the sea quarks in ) are positively polarized. The asymmetry of the polarized fragmentation functions of the sea quarks and antiquarks to and provides a way to understand the different behavior between the and spin transfers observed in the recent E665 experiment at FNAL. Received: 5 April 2000 / Published online: 26 July 2000     

反质子引起的核反应中碎裂机制和粒子产生（英文）

基于兰州量子分子动力学（LQMD） 模型,系统研究了低能反质子引起的核反应中原子核碎裂机制和粒子产生。在LQMD输运模型中,考虑了反重子-重子、重子-重子和介子-重子碰撞可能产生的弹性散射、湮灭反应、电荷交换和非弹性散射。发展了并合模型,用于相空间构造初级碎片产生。处于激发态的碎片退激是基于统计模型描述。研究结果说明超子主要是由于奇异性交换产生;重碎片裂变会导致中等质量区域碎片产额增加;反质子引起的核反应有利于产生s=-2 和s=1 奇特超核,并给出了产生截面。Within the framework of the Lanzhou quantum molecular dynamics (LQMD) transport model, the nuclear fragmentation and particle production induced by low-energy antiprotons have been investigated thoroughly. Production of strange particles in the antiproton induced nuclear reactions is modeled within the LQMD model, in which all possible reaction channels such as elastic scattering, annihilation, charge exchange and inelastic scattering in antibaryon-baryon, baryon-baryon and mesonbaryon collisions have been included. A coalescence approach is developed for constructing the primary fragments in phase space. The secondary decay process of the fragments is described by the well-known statistical code. It is found that the strangeness exchange reactions dominate the hyperon production. A bump structure in the domain of intermediate mass for heavy targets appears owing to the contribution of fission fragments. It has advantage to produce heavier hyperfragments and hypernuclides with strangeness s = -2 (double-Λ fragments) and s = 1 (Λ-fragments) in antiproton induced reactions. The production cross sections are evaluated.     

Radiatively generated isospin violations in the nucleon and the NuTeV anomaly

Predictions of isospin asymmetries of valence and sea distributions are presented which are generated by QED leading Oalpha photon bremsstrahlung effects. Together with isospin violations arising from nonperturbative hadronic sources (such as quark and target mass differences) as well as with even a conservative contribution from a strangeness asymmetry (s not equal to s), the discrepancy between the large NuTeV anomaly result for sin(2Theta(w)) and the world average of other measurements is removed.     

Production of fragments with and without strangeness within a combined BUU + SMM approach

The formation of hypernuclei in hadron-induced reactions and in heavy-ion collisions within a combination of a covariant transport model and a statistical fragmentation approach is investigated. We study the applicability and limitations of such a hybrid approach by comparing fragmentation data in heavy-ion collisions and proton-induced reactions. It turns out that the combined approach describes fairly well multiplicities and momentum spectra of fragments. We thus extend the model by including strangeness degrees of freedom in the fragmentation process, modeled by a phase-space coalescence method. We provide theoretical predictions on spectra and on inclusive cross sections of light hypernuclei for the future experiments on hypernuclear physics at the new GSI facility.     

A simple approach to describe hadron production rates in e+e− annihilation

We show that, based on the idea of string fragmentation, the production rates of light flavored mesons and baryons originating from fragmentation can be described by the spin, the binding energy of the particle, and a strangeness suppression factor. Apart from a normalization factor, e⁺e^? data at different center-of-mass energies can be described simultaneously. Applying to the heavy flavor production, we find that our predictions are in good agreement with data.     

Strangeness content and structure function of the nucleon in a statistical quark model

The strangeness content of the nucleon is determined from a statistical model using confined quark levels, and is shown to have a good agreement with the corresponding values extracted from experimental data. The quark levels are generated in a Dirac equation that uses a linear confining potential (scalar plus vector). With the requirement that the result for the Gottfried sum rule violation, given by the New Muon Collaboration (NMC), is well reproduced, we also obtain the difference between the structure functions of the proton and neutron, and the corresponding sea quark contributions. Received: 15 March 1999 / Revised version: 15 April 1999 / Published online: 14 October 1999     

在RHIC的极限碎裂和Φ介子产生(英文)

利用强子和串级联模型LUCIAE研究了PHOBOS的极限碎裂等以及在PHIC进行的Au+Au碰撞中带电粒子多重性的经验标度规律. 对Φ介子的产生机制也通过与带电粒子多重性的比较进行类似的研究. 结果似乎表明在串级碎裂模型中带电粒子和Φ介子有共同的产生机制. 还讨论了PHOBOS经验标度规律的模型依赖性.The PHOBOS’s limiting fragmentation etc. three empirical scaling rules for charged multiplicity in Au+Au collisions at RHIC are investigated by ahadron and string cascade model LUCIAE. Similar studies are performed for the meson exploring its production mechanism via comparing with the charged multiplicity. The LUCIAE results for charged multiplicity are compatible with PHOBOS observations. However, for the  meson the three empirical scaling rules are either kept only or kept better in the LUCIAE calculations without reduction mechanism of the s quark suppression extra introduced for the strangeness in LUCIAE model. These results seem indicating a universal production mechanism for charged particle and  meson in string fragmentation regime. It is discussed that the PHOBOS’s empirical scaling rules are model dependent indeed.     

On chemical equilibrium in nuclear collisions

The data on average hadron multiplicities in central A+A collisions measured at CERN SPS are analysed with the ideal hadron gas model. It is shown that the full chemical equilibrium version of the model fails to describe the experimental results. The agreement of the data with the off–equilibrium version allowing for partial strangeness saturation is significantly better. The chemical freeze–out temperature of about 180 MeV seems to be independent of the system size (from S+S to Pb+Pb) and in agreement with that extracted in , and collisions. The strangeness suppression is discussed at both hadron and valence quark level. It is found that the hadronic strangeness saturation factor increases from about 0.45 for interactions to about 0.7 for central A+A collisions with no significant change from S+S to Pb+Pb collisions indicating that the strangeness enhancement in heavy ion collisions cannot be fully attributed to the increased system size. The quark strangeness suppression factor is found to be about 0.2 for elementary collisions and about 0.4 for heavy ion collisions independently of collision energy and type of colliding system. Received: 31 October 1997 / Published online: 26 February 1998     

Inclusive neutral kaon production in 70 GeV/c K+p interactions

The inclusive production of neutral kaons in 70 GeV/c K⁺p interactions is studied with the CERN BEBC bubble chamber. The (semi-)inclusive cross sections are interpreted in terms of the various strangeness channels leading to neutral kaon production. The invariant inclusive cross section for kaon production is studied as a function of p_t² and the Feynman variable x. The latter distributions are considered both “raw” and corrected for the presence of K⁰'s resulting from K¹ decay. They are compared with the predictions expected from the Regge-Mueller formalism, the recombination model and fragmentation models.     

The diffractive component of particle production in the dual multistring fragmentation model

The single diffractive component is introduced in the dual Monte Carlo chain decay model of soft particle production. The diffractively excited multiparticle states in this model arise from the fragmentation of two chains formed out of the valence quarks and antiquarks (or diquarks) of the diffractively excited hadron and a sea quark-antiquark pair of the Pomeron, considered to be a gluonic object. In this way the excited clusters behave in a way quite similar to multiparticle states formed in nondiffractive meson-hadron collisions. The calculated multiparticle states agree quite well with recent data from the UA4-SPS collider collaboration and with recent data on strange particle production in diffractive photon-proton collisions.     

Strangeness production via parton cascade

We study pre-equilibrium strangeness production at RHIC energies in a new parton cascade. Starting with the turbulent glue HIJING initial conditions we investigate the interplay between mini-jet and soft beam jet gluons for strangeness production prior to hadronization, and show the importance of soft beam jet gluons in the strangeness production.     

Quark-hadron phase transition and strangeness conservation constraints

The implications of the strangeness conservation in a hadronic resonance gas (HRG) on the expected phase transition to the quark gluon plasma (QGP) are investigated. It is assumed that under favourable conditions a first order hadron-quark matter phase transition may occur in the hot hadronic matter such as those produced in the ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at CERN and BNL. It is however shown that the criteria of strict strangeness conservation in the HRG may not permit the occurrence of a strict first order equilibrium quark-hadron phase transition unlike a previous study. This emerges as a consequence of the application of a realistic equation of state (EOS) for the HRG and QGP phases, which account for the finite-size effect arising from the short range hard-core hadronic repulsion in the HRG phase and the perturbative QCD interactions in the QGP phase. For a first order hadron-quark matter phase transition to occur one will therefore require large fluctuations in the critical thermal parameters, which might arise due to superheating, supercooling or other nonequlibrium effects. We also discuss a scenario proposed earlier, leading to a possible strangeness separation process during hadronization. Received: 25 August 1997 / Revised version: 25 March 1998 / Published online: 26 August 1998     

Sum rules for strangeness exchange reactions with nuclei

Within the framework of a constituent quark model we derive energy-weighted sum rules for strangeness exchange (analog) and spin-strangeness exchange (generalized Gamow-Teller) reactions in the limit of small momentum transfer. The target nucleus is treated as a system of non-communicating 3-quark clusters. We also calculate the branching between the SU(3) octet and decouplet channels and we consider double strangeness exchange reactions.     

Doubly strange hypernuclei at PANDA

The FAIR project aims to investigate several fields of physics: QCD, nuclear structure, astrophysics, atomic physics, plasma physics and their applications. In particular, the high-energy storage ring (HESR) will allow high-precision measurements in the antiproton momentum range from 1.5 to 15?GeV/c. Inside HESR, the PANDA experiment will study the charm and strangeness physics, the form factor in the time-like region and other topics like the crossed-channel Compton scattering. The study of the strangeness will be focused onto the doubly strange systems (hypernuclei and hyperatoms) produced with a new technique starting from the antiproton-nucleus reaction.     

Phase transition of the baryon-antibaryon plasma in hot and dense nuclear matter

We investigate the presence of thermodynamic instabilities in a hot and dense nuclear medium where a phase transition from a gas of massive hadrons to a nearly massless baryon, antibaryon plasma can take place. The analysis is performed by requiring the global conservation of baryon number and zero net strangeness in the framework of an effective relativistic mean field theory with the inclusion of the Δ(1232)-isobars, hyperons and the lightest pseudoscalar and vector meson degrees of freedom. Similarly to the low density nuclear liquid-gas phase transition, we show that such a phase transition is characterized by both mechanical instability (fluctuations on the baryon density) that by chemical- diffusive instability (fluctuations on the strangeness concentration). It turns out that, in this situation, phases with different values of antibaryon-baryon ratios and strangeness content may coexist.     

Observation of an exotic baryon with S=+1 in photoproduction from the proton

The reaction gamma p-->pi(+)K(-)K(+)n was studied at Jefferson Laboratory using a tagged photon beam with an energy range of 3-5.47 GeV. A narrow baryon state with strangeness S=+1 and mass M=1555+/-10 MeV/c(2) was observed in the nK(+) invariant mass spectrum. The peak's width is consistent with the CLAS resolution (FWHM=26 MeV/c(2)), and its statistical significance is (7.8+/-1.0)sigma. A baryon with positive strangeness has exotic structure and cannot be described in the framework of the naive constituent quark model. The mass of the observed state is consistent with the mass predicted by the chiral soliton model for the Theta(+) baryon. In addition, the pK(+) invariant mass distribution was analyzed in the reaction gamma p-->K(-)K(+)p with high statistics in search of doubly charged exotic baryon states. No resonance structures were found in this spectrum.     

Strangeness production in nuclear matter and expansion dynamics

Thermodynamical properties of hot and dense nuclear matter are analyzed and compared for different equations of state (EoS). It is argued that the softest point of the equation of state and the strangeness separation on the phase boundary can manifest themselves in observables. The influence of the EoS and the order of the phase transition on the expansion dynamics of nuclear matter and strangeness excitation function is analyzed. It is shown that the bulk properties of the strangeness production in A-A collisions depend only weakly on the particular form of the EoS. The predictions of different models are related with experimental data on strangeness production.Received: 11 August 2003, Published online: 3 December 2003     

Double strangeness production in antiproton annihilation on nuclei

The recent data on double strangeness production after antiproton annihilation on nuclei are analyzed within the conventional picture of the reaction, namely annihilation on a single nucleon, followed by rescattering of the products in the nucleus, assumed to proceed in a hadronic phase. General expressions for single and double strangeness are derived within this picture. The relevant parameters are determined, as far as possible, from the single strangeness production yields and are used to predict double strangeness production yields. The later are compared with experiment and found consistent with the conventional picture. However, the data seem to indicate that the strangeness production in the primordial annihilation is different from what it is in nucleon-antinucleon reactions. An estimate of theΞ production rate is also performed. It is shown that the latter is much less sensitive to the rescattering process than in theΛ production case.