Polar Angle Dependence of the Alignment Polarization of Quarks Produced in e^+e^- Annihilation

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24 January 1996

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/9601313

Abstract

We calculate one-loop radiative QCD corrections to the three polarized and unpolarized structure functions that determine the beam-quark polar angle dependence of the alignment (or longitudinal) polarization of light and heavy quarks produced in e^+e^- annihilations. We present analytical and numerical results for the alignment polarization and its polar angle dependence. We discuss in some detail the zero-mass limit of our results and the role of the anomalous spin-flip contributions to the polarization observables in the zero-mass limit. Our discussion includes transverse and longitudinal beam polarization effects.

Keywords

ALIGNMENT POLARIZATION
POLAR ANGLE DEPENDENCE
POLARIZATION OF QUARKS
QUARKS PRODUCED
QCD

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