Evidence for Different Polarization Properties of the rho K and K* (890) pi States of the 1+ Wave in the Q Region

The Aachen-Berlin-CERN-London-Vienna collaboration Otter, G. ; Rudolph, G. ; Rumph, K. ; et al.
Nucl.Phys.B 93 (1975) 365-386, 1975.
Inspire Record 99251 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.32005

A partial-wave analysis has been performed on the (K − π − π + ) system produced in the reaction K − p → K − π − π + p at 10 and 16 GeV/ c . In the Q mass region it is found that the two dominant states, K ∗ π and Kπ, both in 1 + S wave, are produced with different polarisations, helicity being approximately conserved in the t -channel for K ∗ π and in the s -channel for Kπ. This is in contradiction with the assumption that the amplitude can be factorised into “production” and “decay” parts, and hence that the two amplitudes are fully coherent. The phase variation of the two states do not indicate simple resonance behaviour. It is concluded that the Q-mass enhancement is composite.

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