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LONGITUDINAL SPIN TRANSFER OF THE Λ AND ¯ Λ HYPERONS IN<br />

DIS AT COMPASS<br />

V.L. Rapatskiy 1 on behalf <strong>of</strong> the COMPASS collaboration<br />

(1) Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980, Russia, Moscow reg., Dubna<br />

E-mail: rapatsky@cern.ch<br />

Abstract<br />

The longitudinal spin transfer from muons to Λ and ¯ Λ hyperons has been studied<br />

in deep inelastic scattering <strong>of</strong>f an unpolarized isoscalar target at the COMPASS<br />

experiment at CERN. The spin transfers to Λ and ¯ Λ produced in the current fragmentation<br />

region exhibit different behaviors as a function <strong>of</strong> x and xF . The resulting<br />

average values are DΛ LL = −0.01 ± 0.05 ± 0.02 and D ¯ Λ<br />

LL =0.25 ± 0.06 ± 0.05. These<br />

results are discussed in the frame <strong>of</strong> recent model calculations.<br />

Interest to study the polarization <strong>of</strong> Λ and ¯ Λ in DIS resides in the possibility <strong>of</strong><br />

accessing the distributions <strong>of</strong> strange quarks and antiquarks in nucleon (s(x) and¯s(x)).<br />

The present results are based on the analysis <strong>of</strong> data collected by COMPASS during the<br />

years 2003-2004. The Λ and ¯ Λ hyperons were produced by scattering 160 GeV polarized<br />

μ + <strong>of</strong>f a polarized 6 LiD target. The COMPASS spectrometer is described in [1]. The<br />

average beam polarization was Pb = −0.76 ± 0.04 in the 2003 run and Pb = −0.80 ± 0.04<br />

in the 2004 run. The cryogenic target consists <strong>of</strong> two 60 cm long cells filled with 6 LiD,<br />

which is characterized by high polarizability. Both cells are oppositely polarized, the<br />

polarization vector is reversed every 8 hours.<br />

DIS events are selected by cuts on the photon virtuality (Q 2 > 1(GeV/c) 2 )andonthe<br />

fractional energy <strong>of</strong> the virtual photon (0.2

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