Extracting Maximum Information from Polarised Baryon Decays via Amplitude Analysis: The Λc+⟶pK−π+ Case

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 Λc+⟶pK−π+ decay distributions, demonstrating that the full information on its decay a...

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Main Author: Daniele Marangotto
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-01-01
Series:Advances in High Energy Physics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/7463073
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description 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 Λc+⟶pK−π+ 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 Λc+⟶pK−π+ decay for applications ranging from New Physics searches to low-energy QCD studies, in particular its use as absolute polarimeter for the Λc+ 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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spelling doaj-art-782a9ec344ea4eb0b28b02d0d53cb8d42025-08-20T02:07:08ZengWileyAdvances in High Energy Physics1687-73571687-73652020-01-01202010.1155/2020/74630737463073Extracting Maximum Information from Polarised Baryon Decays via Amplitude Analysis: The Λc+⟶pK−π+ CaseDaniele Marangotto0Università degli Studi di Milano and INFN Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, ItalyWe 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 Λc+⟶pK−π+ 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 Λc+⟶pK−π+ decay for applications ranging from New Physics searches to low-energy QCD studies, in particular its use as absolute polarimeter for the Λc+ 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.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/7463073
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Extracting Maximum Information from Polarised Baryon Decays via Amplitude Analysis: The Λc+⟶pK−π+ Case
Advances in High Energy Physics
title Extracting Maximum Information from Polarised Baryon Decays via Amplitude Analysis: The Λc+⟶pK−π+ Case
title_full Extracting Maximum Information from Polarised Baryon Decays via Amplitude Analysis: The Λc+⟶pK−π+ Case
title_fullStr Extracting Maximum Information from Polarised Baryon Decays via Amplitude Analysis: The Λc+⟶pK−π+ Case
title_full_unstemmed Extracting Maximum Information from Polarised Baryon Decays via Amplitude Analysis: The Λc+⟶pK−π+ Case
title_short Extracting Maximum Information from Polarised Baryon Decays via Amplitude Analysis: The Λc+⟶pK−π+ Case
title_sort extracting maximum information from polarised baryon decays via amplitude analysis the λc ⟶pk π case
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/7463073
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