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Experimental test of the K-A relative parity -Use of polarized photon beams at high energiesYoshio Yamaguchi a a c/o KEK-Tanashi, Tanashi, Tokyo 188-8501, Japan Photo K production from helium ,7 +4 He --+~ He + K ~

(or __.+4 H + K +)

can be used to test experimentally the K-A relative parity.

1. I N T R O D U C T I O N

Polarized photon beams are quite useful in nuclear and hadron physics. In the past electron Bremsstrahlung with the final electron tagging was used to obtain polarized photons, however, whose intensity is not good enough. Now availability of high energy electron beams of good quality and powerful lasers made it possible to produce intense polarized photons using the inverse Compton scattering [I]. Such facilities are constructed (or under construction) at several labs in the world, including SPring 8, and expected soon to uncover many interesting physics outcomes in nuclear and hadron physics. Detailed information of photo-kaon production is one of many others, and expected to contribute complete phase shift analyses of K-N systems at low energies.
2. E X P E R I M E N T A L T E S T O F K-A R E L A T I V E PARITY

In view of the great success of the Standard Model, no body wonders that K-meson is pseudoscalar. Nevertheless it would be nice to have a direct experimental test of the K-A, relative parity. Notice that the odd parity of 7r~ was directly proved long ago by observing correlation of two plans spanned by (e+e -) in 7r~ -~ (e+e -) + (e+e-). To this end let us consider photo-kaon production from the nucleon
7 + P ~ A + K +, whose matrix element in the CM system is given by (NR approximation) f[k x e]p + g(e. p)k f ( e . p)k + g[k x e]p for 0- kaon for 0 + kaon (2) (1)

where k, and p are momenta of photon and kaon and e is the polarization vector of photon, f and g depend on k - Ikl and (k. p). The differential cross section of (I) for

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linearly polarized photon on unpolarized proton target is dcr dt~ cv ]f]2]e. [p k][ 2 + k2[g[ 2 for O- kaon
c~ (3a) (3b)

]fl~kUle. p[2 +

k2lgl2 for 0 + kaon

Clear difference between (3a) and (3b) is useful to establish experimentally K-A relative parity, even though sizable relativistic corrections are to be added to the matrix element (2). The situation becomes clearer when the helium target is used [2] (where the relativistic corrections are smaller as compared to the nucleon target). If one can distinguish between two processes 7 + 4He ---+~He (ground state 0 +) + K ~ and ~/+4He --+~xHe* (excited state 1+, 1 MeV) + K ~ (4)

(5)

(4) offers better case to test the K-A relative parity. The differential cross section of (4) for the linearly polarized (monoenergetic) incident photon is given by

da
d~

c~ Ie- [k p]12(F) 2 for 0-, c~ le" pl2(P) 2 for 0 +,

(6a) (6b)

where [3] (F) 2 ~ 0.64e-(k-o.96p)2/( 191 MeV/c)2 k and p are momenta of -), and K in CM system of (4). The region, slightly above the threshold, say k ~ 1 GeV, may be preferable to test (6a) and (6b). REFERENCES 1. R.H. Milburn, Phys. Rev. Letters 10 (1963) 75. 2. Y. Yamaguchi, Soryushiron-Kenkyu (in Japanese) 25 (1962) 447. 3. The wave functions for 4He and 4He have been kindly supplied by Prof. Y. Akaishi.