Leading particle production in light flavour jets

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作者
Abbiendi, G [1 ]
Ackerstaff, K
Akesson, PF
Alexander, G
Allison, J
Anderson, KJ
Arcelli, S
Asai, S
Ashby, SF
Axen, D
Azuelos, G
Bailey, I
Ball, AH
Barberio, E
Barlow, RJ
Batley, JR
Baumann, S
Behnke, T
Bell, KW
Bella, G
Bellerive, A
Bentvelsen, S
Bethke, S
Betts, S
Biebel, O
Biguzzi, A
Bloodworth, IJ
Bock, P
Böhme, J
Boeriu, O
Bonacorsi, D
Boutemeur, M
Braibant, S
Bright-Thomas, P
Brigliadori, L
Brown, RM
Burckhart, HJ
Capiluppi, P
Carnegie, RK
Carter, AA
Carter, JR
Chang, CY
Charlton, DG
Chrisman, D
Ciocca, C
Clarke, PEL
Clay, E
Cohen, I
Conboy, JE
Cooke, OC
机构
[1] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[2] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[3] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[4] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
[5] Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Phys, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[6] Univ Cambridge, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge CB3 0HE, England
[7] Carleton Univ, Dept Phys, Ottawa Carleton Inst Phys, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[8] Carleton Univ, Ctr Res Particle Phys, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[9] CERN, European Org Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[10] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[11] Univ Chicago, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[12] Univ Freiburg, Fak Phys, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
[13] Heidelberg Univ, Inst Phys, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
[14] Indiana Univ, Dept Phys, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[15] Queen Mary Univ London, London E1 4NS, England
[16] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[17] UCL, London WC1E 6BT, England
[18] Univ Manchester, Dept Phys, Schuster Lab, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[19] Univ Maryland, Dept Pathol, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[20] Univ Montreal, Phys Nucl Lab, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
[21] Univ Oregon, Dept Phys, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[22] Rutherford Appleton Lab, CLRC, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[23] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Phys, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel
[24] Tel Aviv Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[25] Univ Tokyo, Int Ctr Elementary Particle Phys, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[26] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[27] Kobe Univ, Kobe, Hyogo 6578501, Japan
[28] Brunel Univ, Inst Phys & Environm Sci, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, Middx, England
[29] Weizmann Inst Sci, Particle Phys Dept, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel
[30] Univ Hamburg, DESY, Inst Expt Phys 2, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
[31] Univ Victoria, Dept Phys, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada
[32] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[33] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2J1, Canada
[34] Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
[35] Inst Nucl Res, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary
[36] Univ Munich, Sekt Phys, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[37] TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3, Canada
[38] Univ Min & Met Krakow, Krakow, Poland
[39] Univ Debrecen, Dept Expt Phys, Debrecen, Hungary
[40] Max Planck Inst, Munich, Germany
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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 2000年 / 16卷 / 03期
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10.1007/s100520000406
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
The energy distribution and type of the particle with the highest momentum in quark jets are determined for each of the live quark flavours making only minimal model assumptions. The analysis is based on a large statistics sample of hadronic Z(0) decays collected with the OPAL detector at the LEP e(+)e(-) collider. These results provide a basis for future studies of light flavour production at other cerltre-of-mass energies. We use our results to study the hadronisation mechanism in light flavour jets and compare the data to the QCD models JETSET and HERWIG. Within the JETSET model we also directly determine the suppression of strange quarks to be gamma(s) = 0.-122 +/- 0.039(stat.) +/- 0.059(syst.) by comparing the production of charged and neutral kaons in strange and non-strange light quark events. Finally we study the features of baryon production.
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