A Measurement of the Polarization Parameter in pi- p --> K+ Sigma- Backward Scattering at 3.5-GeV/c

The CERN-Trieste collaboration Birsa, R. ; Bradamante, F. ; Daum, C. ; et al.
Nucl.Phys.B 133 (1978) 220, 1978.
Inspire Record 122588 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.35147

We have measured the polarization parameter in π − p→K + Σ − backward scattering at 3.5 GeV/ c incident momentum, in the u -range −0.6< u <0.1 GeV 2 . The apparatus consisted of a polarized target in a spectrometer magnet, counter hodoscopes for time-of-flight measurements, a large water Čerenkov counter for kaon tagging, and wire spark chambers. After identification of the kaons, the reaction was selected by a missing-mass technique. An isospin analysis has been carried out to separate the contributions of the various isospin exchange amplitudes in the u -channel.

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