Longitudinal polarization of hyperon and anti-hyperon in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering

TL;DR

This paper investigates the longitudinal polarization of hyperons and anti-hyperons in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering, analyzing spin transfer mechanisms and comparing theoretical predictions with experimental data.

Contribution

It provides a detailed numerical analysis of hyperon polarization, considering sea quark asymmetries and making predictions for future high-energy experiments.

Findings

Polarization differences depend on sea quark asymmetries.

Results align with COMPASS data under certain assumptions.

Predictions for eRHIC experiments are provided.

Abstract

We make a detailed study of the longitudinal polarization of hyperons and anti-hyperons in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering. We present the numerical results for spin transfer in quark fragmentation processes, analyze the possible origins for a difference between the polarization for hyperon and that for the corresponding anti-hyperon. We present the results obtained in the case that there is no asymmetry between sea and anti-sea distribution in nucleon as well as those obtained when such an asymmetry is taken into account. We compare the results with the available data such as those from COMPASS and make predictions for future experiments including those at even higher energies such as at eRHIC.