Exclusive electroproduction of phi and lambda (1520)
Abstract
As part of the experimental program of the Large Aperture Magnet Experiment at the Cornell University Wilson Synchrotron, 11.5 GeV electrons were scattered from a liquid hydrogen target. Charged particles exiting from the reaction were detected in a 2 ft x 4 ft x 8 ft volume filled with wire proportional chambers and a 0.8 Tesla magnetic field. The trigger system required that the scattered electrons have undergone a four momentum transfer of at least -0.5 GeV squared. From these events were selected a subset satisfying the final state hypothesis (e p k superscript +superscript-) (ep K + K-). From this sample, cross sections for the production of the phi meson and lambda (1520) hyperon were extracted. The results are consistent with vector meson dominance within the modest statistics.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- May 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978PhDT........22D
- Keywords:
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- Electron Scattering;
- Hyperons;
- Mesons;
- Charged Particles;
- Liquid Hydrogen;
- Momentum Transfer;
- Scattering Cross Sections;
- Nuclear and High-Energy Physics