Polarization and magnetic moment of the Sigma + hyperon.
The polarization and magnetic moment of the ..sigma../sup +/ hyperon have been measured for 137X0 ..sigma../sup +/..-->..p..pi../sup 0/ decays from ..sigma../sup +/ produced at 5 mrad by 400-GeV/c protons on Be. The polarization averages 24% in the range 140 to 350 GeV/c and is opposite in sign to that of similarly produced ..lambda... The moment is (2.479 +- 0.012 +- 0.022)..mu../sub N/, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively.

title: Study of quark flow in exclusive reactions at 90 degrees in the center of mass (AGS E838)
abstract: We report a study of quark flow in 20 exclusive reactions measured at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s AGS with a beam momentum of 5.9 GeV/c at 90° in the center of mass. This experiment confirms the strong quark flow reaction mechanism dependence of two‐body hadron scattering at large angles seen at 9.9 GeV/c. Large differences in cross sections for different reactions are consistent with the dominance of quark interchange in these 90° reactions, and indicate that pure gluon exchange and quark/antiquark annihilation diagrams are less important.

title: A MULTIKILOTON DETECTOR TO CONDUCT A SENSITIVE SEARCH FOR NUCLEON DECAY

title: Measurements of production polarization and decay asymmetry for Xi - hyperons.

title: HARD QUARK-QUARK SCATTERING WITH EXCLUSIVE REACTIONS*
abstract: We have begun a program designed to study hard quark-quark scattering with exclusive reactions, focusing on quasi-elastic two-body reactions with all possible quark flavor exchanges. Examples are ..pi../sup -/p ..-->.. ..pi../sup -/p, rho/sup -/p, ..pi../sup +/..delta../sup -/, K/sup +/..sigma../sup -/, or K..lambda... Of the two-body exclusives, only elastic scattering had been measured at such large t previous to our experiment. By comparing the relative importance of different final states, the energy dependence of the production ratios of these states, the prominence of resonances such as rho/sup -/ over background in this region, and measuring polarizations where accessible, we have collected a large body of data on hard scattering in a completely new domain. Previously, essential all short distance QCD tests have been for inclusive processes. We have taken data with both negative and positive incident beam at 10 GeV/c on a hydrogen target and will present the first results, for ..pi../sup -/p ..-->.. ..pi../sup -/p and rho/sup -/p at THETA/sub cm/ = 90/sup 0/, -t = 9 GeV/sup 2//c/sup 2/. The apparatus consists of a magnetic spectrometer, with Cerenkov particle identification, which selects stable charged particles (protons in this case) at high momentum near 90/sup 0/ in the center-of-mass. Amore » large aperture array of PWCs observes the recoil particle or charged decay products. Cross sections are extremely low, approximately a 1 nb/(GeV/c)/sup 2/ for elastic scattering. We will report on a sample of more than 1000 ..pi../sup -/p elastic events, and on rho/sup -/p, where the rho/sup -/ decay distribution was observed. We find a surprisingly large rho/sup -/p cross section in this large momentum transfer region, with rho/sup -/p about half the elastic cross section, and a striking spin alignment of the rho/sup -/.« less

title: New limit on magnetic monopole flux
abstract: The underground Soudan-1 nucleon decay experiment can measure the velocities of slowly moving particles if they can be detected by ionization at a level 0.5 times that of a relativistic muon. Magnetic monopoles predicted by grand unified theories should satisfy this condition if their velocities are greater than 10/sup -3/c. During a live time of 0.41 yr, no candidate has been observed, implying a 90%- confidence-level limit on the flux of such objects of <4.1 x 10/sup -13/ cm/sup -2/ sr/sup -1/ s/sup -1/ for velocities between 10/sup -3/c and 10/sup -2/c.

title: Comparison of lattice Coulomb-gauge wave functions in the quenched approximation and with dynamical fermions.
abstract: We present a comparison of Coulomb-gauge wave functions from 6/[ital g][sup 2]=6.0 quenched simulations with two simulations which include the effects of dynamical fermions: simulations with two flavors of dynamical staggered quarks and valence Wilson quarks at 6/[ital g][sup 2]=5.6 and simulations with two flavors of dynamical Wilson quarks and Wilson valence quarks at 6/[ital g][sup 2]=5.3. The spectroscopy of these systems is essentially identical. Parametrizations of the wave functions are presented which can be used as interpolating fields for spectroscopy calculations. The sizes of particles are calculated using these parametrized wave functions. The resulting sizes are small, approximately half the sizes of the physical states. The charge radius of the neutron, which provides an indication of the asymmetries between the wave functions of up and down quarks, is calculated. Although the size of the nucleon in these simulations is small, the ratio of the charge radius of the neutron to that of the proton is consistent with the physical value. We find no significant differences between the quenched and dynamical simulations.

title: Overrelaxation and mode coupling in sigma models.
abstract: An exact overrelaxation algorithm for nonlinear \ensuremath{\sigma} models is presented and practically implemented. Using a new method of analysis the mode-mode coupling mechanism underlying overrelaxation is clearly exhibited. In one dimension our numerical results provide evidence that the critical exponent z is equal to unity.

title: Hadron spectrum in QCD with valence Wilson fermions and dynamical staggered fermions at 6/g2=5.6.
abstract: We present an analysis of hadronic spectroscopy for Wilson valence quarks with dynamical staggered fermions at a lattice coupling 6/{ital g}{sup 2}={beta}=5.6 at a sea-quark mass of {ital am}{sub {ital q}}=0.01 and 0.025, and of Wilson valence quarks in the quenched approximation at {beta}=5.85 and 5.95, both on 16{sup 3}{times}32 lattices. We make comparisons with our previous results with dynamical staggered fermions at the same parameter values but on 16{sup 4} lattices doubled in the temporal direction.

title: Effects of spatial size, lattice doubling, and source operators on the hadron spectrum with dynamical staggered quarks at 6/g2=5.6.
abstract: We have extended our previous study of the lattice QCD spectrum with two flavors of staggered dynamical quarks at 6/[ital g][sup 2]=5.6 and [ital am][sub [ital q]]=0.025 and 0.01 to larger lattices, with better statistics and with additional sources for the propagators. The additional sources allowed us to estimate the [Delta] mass and to measure the masses of all mesons whose operators are local in time. These mesons show good evidence for flavor symmetry restoration, except for the masses of the Goldstone and non-Goldstone pions. PCAC is observed in that [ital m][sub [pi]][sup 2][proportional to][ital m][sub [ital q]], and [ital f][sub [pi]] is estimated. Use of undoubled lattices removes the problems with the pion propagator found in our earlier work. Previously we found a large change in the nucleon mass at a quark mass of [ital am][sub [ital q]]=0.01 when we increased the spatial size from 12 to 16. No such effect is observed at the larger quark mass, [ital am][sub [ital q]]=0.025. Two kinds of wall source were used, and we have found difficulties in getting consistent results for the nucleon mass between the two sources.

title: Observation of the Meissner effect in a lattice Higgs model.
abstract: The lattice-regularized U(1) Higgs model in an external electromagnetic field is studied by Monte Carlo techniques. In the Coulomb phase magnetic flux can flow through uniformly. The Higgs phase splits into a region where magnetic flux can penetrate only in the form of vortices and a region where the magnetic flux is completely expelled, the relativistic analog of the Meissner effect in superconductivity. We present evidence for symmetry restoration in strong external fields.