Strangeness exchange in antiproton-proton scattering

R. G. E. Timmermans, Th. A. Rijken, and J. J. de Swart
Phys. Rev. D 45, 2288 – Published 1 April 1992
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Abstract

A model is presented for the production of antihyperon-hyperon pairs in antiproton-proton scattering in the energy region below 2.0 GeV/c antiproton laboratory momentum accessible at CERN’s Low Energy Antiproton Ring. An antibaryon-baryon potential is constructed from the Nijmegen soft-core one-boson-exchange nucleon-nucleon and hyperon-nucleon potential. Using this potential as an intermediate- and long-range interaction the multichannel Schrödinger equation is solved with a complex boundary condition at r=b=1.2 fm. The model is applied to the elastic p¯pp¯p scattering data, cross sections, and asymmetries at intermediate energies around 1.5 GeV/c antiproton momentum. Next we compare it to the full set of data, cross sections, polarizations, and spin correlations on the strangeness-exchange reaction p¯p→Λ¯Λ which has its threshold at momentum 1435 MeV/c. Excellent results are obtained. Fitting 157 observables at 6 different energies we reach χmin2=180.6, corresponding to χ2/data = 1.15. The results demonstrate the dominance of the strangeness-changing tensor force due to the combined exchange of the K(494) and K*(892) mesons. The method of calculation is similar to the one employed in the Nijmegen partial-wave analyses of low-energy proton-proton and neutron-proton scattering data. In the same manner we perform a ‘‘model-independent’’ partial-wave analysis of the reaction p¯p→Λ¯Λ close to threshold. The S-matrix elements are presented.

  • Received 24 May 1991

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.45.2288

©1992 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

R. G. E. Timmermans, Th. A. Rijken, and J. J. de Swart

  • Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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Vol. 45, Iss. 7 — 1 April 1992

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