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How to measure the transverse polarization of the produced hadrons in a symmetric collider?

School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of South China, Hengyang, 421001, Hunan, China

^*zhangzh@usc.edu.cn

Phys. Rev. D 109, L011103 – Published 29 January, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.L011103

Abstract

In this paper, some subtleties in the measurement of the transverse polarization of the produced hadrons on symmetric colliders—such as the Large Hadron Collider when conducting the $p p$ collisions—are revealed. It can be proved that the transverse polarization of the produced particles with opposite pseudorapidity takes exactly opposite values if the normal vector of the production plane is defined in a convention-dependent way, regardless of whether parity is conserved or not in the production process. The analysis shows that, due to the symmetry of the initial state, the $Λ_{b}$ transverse polarization measured by the CMS Collaboration in Phys. Rev. D 97, 072010 (2018) should be exactly equal to zero. A modified measurement of the $Λ_{b}$ polarization for CMS and ATLAS is proposed, the result of which can be compared to the LHCb measurement.

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Phys. Rev. D 109, L011103– Published 29 January, 2024

Vol. 109, Iss. 1 — 1 January 2024

Received 18 October 2023
Accepted 21 December 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.L011103

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