Sacharidis, E.J.
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Forward $K^*$+ (892) Production in $K^+ p \to \pi^+ K^0_S p$ at 12.7-{GeV}/$c$

Sacharidis, E.J. ; Blum, W. ; Dietl, H. ; et al.
Nucl.Phys.B 179 (1981) 9-32, 1981.
Inspire Record 154321 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.34347

We have measured 618 K + p → π + K S 0 p events at 12.7 GeV/ c incident lab momentum, mass range 790 ⩽ m π + K s 0 ⩽ 990 MeV and t range 0.01 ⩽ − t ⩽ 0.60 (GeV/ c ) 2 . The π + K S 0 mass spectrum is dominated by the K ∗+ (892) resonance and a Breit-Wigner fit yields a mass m = 893.5 ± 1.1 MeV and a width Γ = 33.2 ± 4.1 MeV which is much narrower than measured hitherto. The t distribution of K ∗+ (892) events shows a dip in the forward direction and an exponential fall off thereafter, consistent with dominance of helicity flip amplitudes. The spin density matrix is almost saturated by ρ 11 and ρ 1−1 which are very close to their maximum allowed value of 1 2 throughout the measured t range except in the very forward direction where ρ 00 and Re ρ 10 deviate from zero. Natural parity exchanges, therefore, dominate with unnatural parity exchanges being restricted to a small region in the forward direction. A Regge pole analysis of the differential cross sections of the present measurement in conjunction with previously measured total cross sections supports the f-coupled-pomeron hypothesis.

3 data tables
Table 1

SUBTRACTED BACKGROUND IS PHASE SPACE.

Table 2

SUBTRACTED BACKGROUND IS AN INCOHERENT S-WAVE WITH EXPONENTIAL T-DEPENDENCE WITH SLOPE OF 6 GEV**-2.

Table 3

Axis error includes +- 15/15 contribution.