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FIZIKA B 9 (2000) 2, 83-96
 
MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF POLARIZATION MEASUREMENTS IN KAON
ELECTRO-PRODUCTION
T. ANGELESCUa, O. K. BAKERb,c, P. GUEYEb
and L. TEODORESCUa
aUniversity of Bucharest, Department of Physics, P.O. Box
MG12,
R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
bNuclear/High Energy Physics Research Center of Excellence,
Department of Physics,
Hampton, VA 23668, U. S. A.
cJefferson Lab, Physics Division, 12000 Jefferson Avenue,
Newport News, VA 23606,
U. S. A.
Received 10 January 2000; revised manuscript received 14 March 2000
Accepted 15 May 2000
Kaon electro-production experiments with polarized electron beam are planed at the
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Virginia, USA) in order to complete the
information on polarization response functions for the kaon electro-production reactions.
The experiment uses the self analyzing property of the L
recoil. The scattered electrons will be detected in coincidence with the kaons and the
decay protons. This paper presents the simulation of this experiment which takes into
account the spectrometer acceptances, multiple scattering and radiative corrections. The
phase space distribution of the decay protons in the L
center-of-mass system are generated in order to extract information on the polarization on
the three directions. An experimental test with an unpolarized beam has been performed to
estimate the efficiency of the method.
PACS numbers: 13.40.-f, 13.88.+e
UDC 539.12, 539.125.348
Keywords: lambda, kaon, electroproduction, polarization
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