Extracting maximum information from polarised baryon decays via amplitude analysis: the _c^+ p K^- ^+ case

DOI10.1155/2020/7463073MaRDI QIDQ2208804zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniele Marangotto

Publication date 4 November 2020

Published in Advances in High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12318

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particle decays (81U90) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: We consider which is the maximum information measurable from the decay distributions of polarised baryon decays via amplitude analysis in the helicity formalism. We focus in particular on the analytical study of the $Lambd{a}_c^{+}op{K}^{-}p{i}^{+}$ decay distributions, demonstrating that the full information on its decay amplitudes can be extracted from its distributions, allowing a simultaneous measurement of both helicity amplitudes and the polarisation vector. This opens the possibility to use the $Lambd{a}_c^{+}op{K}^{-}p{i}^{+}$ decay for applications ranging from New Physics searches to low-energy QCD studies, in particular its use as absolute polarimeter for the $Lambd{a}_c^{+}$ baryon. This result is valid as well for baryon decays having the same spin structure and it is cross-checked numerically by means of a toy amplitude fit with Monte Carlo pseudo-data.

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Summary: We consider what is the maximum information measurable from the decay distributions of polarised baryon decays via amplitude analysis in the helicity formalism. We focus in particular on the analytical study of the \(\Lambda_c^+\longrightarrow p K^- \pi^+\) decay distributions, demonstrating that the full information on its decay amplitudes can be extracted from its distributions, allowing a simultaneous measurement of both helicity amplitudes and the polarisation vector. This opens the possibility to use the \(\Lambda_c^+\longrightarrow p K^- \pi^+\) decay for applications ranging from New Physics searches to low-energy QCD studies, in particular its use as absolute polarimeter for the \(\Lambda_c^+\) baryon. This result is valid as well for baryon decays having the same spin structure, and it is cross-checked numerically by means of a toy amplitude fit with Monte Carlo pseudodata.

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• MINUIT
• ROOT
• TensorFlow

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