Charged-K * ( 890 ) production at 13GeV/c
Author(s) -
P.G. Estabrooks,
R.K. Carnegie,
G. W. Brandenburgh,
R.J. Cashmore,
M. Davier,
W. M. Dunwoodie,
T. A. Lasinski,
D. W. G. S. Leith,
J. A. J. Matthews,
P. Walden
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
physical review. d. particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/physical review. d. particles and fields
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1089-4918
pISSN - 0556-2821
DOI - 10.1103/physrevd.17.658
Subject(s) - physics , production (economics) , isoscalar , particle physics , statistics , combinatorics , nuclear physics , mathematics , economics , macroeconomics
We present high-statistics data on differential cross sections and density matrix elements for K/sup + -//sup()production obtained in a 13-GeV/c SLAC experiment. The most remarkable features of the data are the dominance of natural-parity exchange and significant differences between K/sup +/ and K/sup -/ production by natural-parity isoscalar exchange. We present two exchange models which successfully describe this difference, as well as the overall t dependence: model A including Pomeron plus strongly exchange-degenerate Regge poles and model B involving broken exchange degeneracy for the f and ..omega.. exchanges. These two phenomenological models lead to different predictions for the energy dependence of K/sup + -/production, for the relative K(1420)/K(890) production rate, and for the SU(3) -related rho/sup + -/production processes.
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