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Lambda hyperon production and polarization in collisions of p(3.5 GeV)+Nb

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Results on \( \Lambda\) hyperon production are reported for collisions of p(3.5 GeV) + Nb , studied with the High-Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer (HADES) at SIS18 at GSI Helmholtzzentrum for Heavy-Ion Research, Darmstadt. The transverse mass distributions in rapidity bins are well described by Boltzmann shapes with a maximum inverse slope parameter of about 90 MeV at a rapidity of y = 1.0, i.e. slightly below the center-of-mass rapidity for nucleon-nucleon collisions, \( y_{cm}=1.12\) . The rapidity density decreases monotonically with increasing rapidity within a rapidity window ranging from 0.3 to 1.3. The \( \Lambda\) phase-space distribution is compared with results of other experiments and with predictions of two transport approaches which are available publicly. None of the present versions of the employed models is able to fully reproduce the experimental distributions, i.e. in absolute yield and in shape. Presumably, this finding results from an insufficient modelling in the transport models of the elementary processes being relevant for \( \Lambda\) production, rescattering and absorption. The present high-statistics data allow for a genuine two-dimensional investigation as a function of phase space of the self-analyzing \( \Lambda\) polarization in the weak decay \( \Lambda\rightarrow p\pi^{-}\) . Finite negative values of the polarization in the order of 5-20% are observed over the entire phase space studied. The absolute value of the polarization increases almost linearly with increasing transverse momentum for p t > 300 MeV/c and increases with decreasing rapidity for y < 0.8 .

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HADES Collaboration., Agakishiev, G., Arnold, O. et al. Lambda hyperon production and polarization in collisions of p(3.5 GeV)+Nb. Eur. Phys. J. A 50, 81 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2014-14081-2

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