η and η’ scattering: A probe of the strange-quark (ss¯) content of the nucleon?

25 June 1990

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 64 (26) , 3115-3118
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.64.3115

Abstract

WE propose that the relative cross sections for the reaction processes ηp,η’p→ηp,η’p,

K^{+}

Λ and

π^{-}

p→ηn,η’n, induced by pseudoscalar mesons on a proton target, provide a sensitive test for the presence of a strange-antistrange (ss¯) quark component in the nucleon’s wave function.

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