RAPIDITY-GAP EVENTS IN E+E- ANNIHILATION

被引:26
作者
BJORKEN, JD
BRODSKY, SJ
LU, HJ
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[1] Stanford Linear Accelarator Center, Stanford University, Stanford
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10.1016/0370-2693(92)90173-2
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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We discuss the significance of events containing rapidity-gaps in high-energy scattering processes, in particular in e+e-annihilation and/or W, Z decays. We compute explicitly the fraction of events containing rapidity-gaps in e+e- --> qqqqBAR and e+e- --> qqggBAR processes at low jet-pair invariant mass limit. These events follow a distinctive sin2-theta distribution in the jet-pair scattering angle. Similar processes are candidate backgrounds for important Higgs and W+W- scattering physics at the SSC and LHC.
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