1. Test of spin dependence in charm-quark fragmentation to D*
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K. A. Schwitkis, R. W. Stephens, Ronald R. Ross, W. Vernon, M. T. Ronan, B. C. Shen, W. A. Wenzel, T. K. Edberg, D. J. Lambert, M. Pripstein, W. T. Lin, Allan G Clark, J. S. Steinman, K. H. Fairfield, R. R. Kofler, M. L. Stevenson, A. Fridman, S. K. Park, Robert W. Kenney, T. Kamae, S. Khacheryan, A. P.T. Palounek, D. A. Crane, J. M. Hauptman, C. D. Buchanan, H. P. Paar, A. Bay, S. J. Yellin, N. A. Nicol, J. J. Eastman, G. D. Cowan, F. R. Rouse, H. Marsiske, G. Zapalac, A. Lu, Philippe Eberhard, S. J. Maxfield, Hiroaki Aihara, C. Ho, S. Toutounchi, Margaret Alston-Garnjost, Elliott D. Bloom, Y. T. Oyang, R. van Tyen, H. Y. Chao, C. Zeitlin, A. R. Barker, S. C. Loken, S. B. Chun, E. S. Miller, G. Lynch, J. G. Layter, R. E. Avery, H. Yamamoto, K. A. Derby, P. J. Oddone, B. D. Magnuson, Werner Hofmann, E. M. Wang, M. G. Strauss, H. Oh, J. Lys, R. J. Madaras, F.L. Linde, H. H. Bingham, J. C. Sens, D. R. Nygren, D. O. Caldwell, Tadayuki Takahashi, George P Yost, Orin I. Dahl, M. Daoudi, R. Belcinski, G. Masek, Y. X. Wang, D. H. Stork, Z. R. Wolf, Willem G. J. Langeveld, G. Shapiro, A. M. Eisner, D. E. Pellett, G. J. VanDalen, F. C. Erné, D. A. Bauer, G. Godfrey, M. K. Sullivan, J. R. Smith, L. G. Mathis, and IHEF (IoP, FNWI)
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Quark ,Physics ,Density matrix ,Particle physics ,Annihilation ,Time projection chamber ,Computer Science::Information Retrieval ,Elementary particle ,Fermion ,Helicity ,Charm quark ,Nuclear physics ,TheoryofComputation_ANALYSISOFALGORITHMSANDPROBLEMCOMPLEXITY ,High Energy Physics::Experiment - Abstract
We have measured the polarization of {ital D}{sup *}, the energy dependence of the polarization, and the spin-density matrix of {ital D}{sup *} in {ital e}{sup +}{ital e{minus}} annihilation at a center-of-mass energy of 29 GeV using the Time Projection Chamber detector at the SLAC storage ring PEP. In 147 pb{sup {minus}1} of data we see no strong evidence for polarization, alignment, or final-state interactions in this fragmentation process.
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- 1991