Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop String Fragmentation in the Exclusive Limit Mac Mestayer 1

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Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop3 flux tube e ‘break’ flux-tube “the keys to a qualitative understanding of strong QCD are identifying the effective degrees of freedom ….. ….. the effective degrees of freedom for strong QCD are valence constituent quarks and flux tubes.” - Nathan Isgur, “Why N*’s are Important”, NSTAR2000 Conf.

LUND Model of Hadronization (for electro-production) Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop4

Phys.Rev.Lett. 90, (2003), D.S. Carman, K. Joo, mm, B.A. Raue et al., (CLAS Collab) Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop 5 Can quark spin dynamics explain this?

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop polarized electron  polarized virtual photon Quark Spins*: Transferred Polarization uuduud p u udud u  K+K+ u-quark polarized by photon’s spin: helicity conserved after absorption of photon’s momentum udud s spin selected opposite u-quark’s  polarization in direction of  if s and s have opposite spins ! Mac Mestayer 6 * Phys.Rev.D61, ,(2000), ZuoTang Liang, C.Boros

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop7 CERN Courier, June, 2003 “Jlab results put new spin on the vacuum”

Polarization Transfer: Two Ideas* Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop8 * “Polarized hyperons probe dynamics of quark spin” CERN Courier, Aug Carman, Lee, Schumacher, mm

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop9 K+K+  u d u ++ n 00 p Strong Coupling : K+K+  u u d 00 p ++ n Photon Coupling :

Exclusive Baryon Meson Production - quark model picture Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop 10 uud ud u eʹeʹ e meson baryon proton Final State  0 p  + n   

Analysis in brief: (e1f data) Detect electron and charged hadron (  +, p, or K + ) Bin each event: Q 2, W, cos ,  Identify neutral hadron (n,  0 or  ) by missing mass – fit (sig. + bkgd.), subtract bkgd., count within cuts Corrections to yield – efficiency/acceptance, phase-space Fit corrected  distribution: ( a + b cos  + c cos2  Ratio of constant terms : K +  + n,  0 p  + n, K +  0 p Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production WorkshopMac Mestayer 11

Fits to  +  Corrected Yields Jan. 22, 2015Mac Mestayer 12Exclusive Meson Production Workshop Example of  - fits for K +  yields Constant term used as the average  ratio of constant terms W cos 

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production WorkshopMac Mestayer 13 Published Cross Section Ratios K +  + n  0 p  + n K +  0 p cos  W.19 +/ / /-.12 weighted averages

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop14 Ratio K +  + n - K +  0 p “a” - K +  0 p “b” -  0 p  + n - strangeness suppression not photon coupling; but not exactly 1

PRL Conclusions Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production WorkshopMac Mestayer 15

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production WorkshopMac Mestayer 16 E.A. Hawker et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3715 (1998). X

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production WorkshopMac Mestayer 17 ++ -- e’ e related ?

Future Studies Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop 18 * “On the mechanism of open-flavor strong decays”, Phys. Rev. D 54, 6811 (1996), E. S. Ackleh, T. Barnes, E. S. Swanson

Conclusions Jan. 22, 2015 Exclusive Meson Production Workshop Mac Mestayer 19

Back-Up Slides Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production WorkshopMac Mestayer 20

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop Simpler in quark picture ?  Polarization Transfer xyz system defined in electron plane z along  direction Polarization transfer near maximal along z ~ 75% ~0 along x direction Models are only “ok” but, not tuned sensitive to polarization Carman et al, PRL (2003) Mac Mestayer 21

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop Induced ,  0 Polarization averaged over W Pol(  ) ~ -Pol (  0 ) common mechanism ? s-quark polarization ? J.W. McNabb thesis, CMU u d s  Mac Mestayer 22

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop Hyperon Induced Polarization Simple Phenomenology  pol. ~ - n, fwd. kaons  pol. ~ + n, bck. kaons n = q x K for forward kaons: “K goes left”  “  polarized down” “K goes right”  “  polarized up” p uuduud real photon unpolarized K  K  left right Mac Mestayer 23

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop Quark Spins in Induced Polarization uuduud p u udud u s s  K+K+ u-quark polarized by spin-orbit force “right-scatter”  “spin-down ” after absorption of photon’s momentum (helicity conservation) unpolarized real photon udud s spin selected opposite u-quark’s  polarization “down” for K going “left” if s and s have same spins! Mac Mestayer 24

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop Recent results on polarization transfer with circularly polarized photons:  p  K +  C z plotted vs. cos  different W bins 1 C z is large except at highest W Mac Mestayer 25

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop p e e’ unpolarized K+K+  K+K+  -or-  Polarization Transfer  polarized ~  direction for all K + angles for all W Simple Phenomenology Mac Mestayer 26

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop27 The authors use a simple non-relativistic quark model to deduce that the s-sbar pair are created with spins anti-aligned, in disagreement with the standard 3P_0 operator used in most calculations. Although the model is very simple, and the authors are careful to point out that it could be in error, I believe that their results must have significant implications for quark pair production, and should provide guidance for theory. Though important, this result on its own would likely be insufficient to merit publication in Physical Review Letters, as theoretical study of the new data is needed to reach specific conclusions. However the authors have done an excellent job of highlighting a second, more qualitative result of their spin-transfer data. They have observed that the longitudinal polarization …………….This conclusion is made in the context of the flux-tube model of the reaction and is somewhat dependent on the details of the Lambda spin structure, but provides a persuasive explanation of the simple structure of the polarization data. I believe it is of sufficient general interest to merit publication in PRL. Quark model  physics conclusion

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop Lambda Polarization from other Experiments LEP experiments (ALEPH and OPAL): Z decay –  polarization = -0.3 for z>0.3 –s quark polarized in electro-weak decay –fully accounts for  polarization  static (CQM) quark model favored HERMES semi-inclusive  production –small value of polarization (~ 0.1)  inconclusive  exclusive polarizations larger than inclusive PP   (x) (CERN R608, several FERMILAB expts.) –polarization negative; increases with P T to 1. GeV/c –increases with X F ; as large as PP   K + P (CERN R608) –polarization negative; as large as  exclusive polarizations larger than for inclusive reactions Phys. Lett. B 374 (1996) 319 Eur. Phys. J. C 2 (1998) 49 Phys. Rev. D 64 (2001) Phys. Lett. B 185 (1987) 209 Phys. Lett. B 283 (1992) 155 Mac Mestayer 28

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop Model for  Polarization in Exclusive Production s(  ) u(  ) (ud) 0 s (  ) p Figure and caption from Liang and Boros, Phys.Rev. D61, , Authors make three points: 1.u-quark is polarized “down” as it scatters “right” phenomenology explains single-spin asymmetry data 2.spin of s-quark is opposite that of u-quark to make spin-0 K + 3.spin of s-quark must be opposite that of s to predict correct  spin.  K+K+ p p  p  K + Mac Mestayer 29

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop polarized electron  polarized virtual photon Quark Spins: Transferred Polarization uuduud p u udud u s s  K+K+ u-quark polarized by photon’s spin: helicity conserved after absorption of photon’s momentum udud s spin selected opposite u-quark’s  polarization in direction of  if s and s have opposite spins ! Mac Mestayer 30

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production Workshop How to describe exclusive production ? hadrons or quarks ? Currents are mesons, baryons Not “elementary” Mature field; but many parameters Currents are mesons, baryons Not “elementary” Mature field; but many parameters Currents are constituent quarks Not “elementary” either ! Successes in meson decays; not as much work on production Currents are constituent quarks Not “elementary” either ! Successes in meson decays; not as much work on production 31

Jan. 22, 2015Exclusive Meson Production WorkshopMac Mestayer 32 * M.D. Mestayer, K. Park et al. (CLAS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, (2014). Published 10 October 2014 Illustration by Kandice Carter, Joanna Korolyshyn. PRL Editors' Suggestion “Strange quark–anti-quark pairs are less likely to be produced in hadronic collisions than their light quark counterparts, providing insight into color confinement in QCD.” PRL Editors' Suggestion “Strange quark–anti-quark pairs are less likely to be produced in hadronic collisions than their light quark counterparts, providing insight into color confinement in QCD.”