Study of quark fragmentation in e+e- annihilation at 29 GeV: Charged-particle multiplicity and single-particle rapidity distributions.
Study of quark fragmentation in e+e- annihilation at 29 GeV: Charged-particle multiplicity and single-particle rapidity distributions.
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10.1103/physrevd.34.3304
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1986-12
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M. Derrick;K. Gan;P. Kooijman;J. Loos;B. Musgrave;L. Price;J. Repond;J. Schlereth;K. Sugano;J. Weiss;D. E. Wood;G. Baranko;D. Blockus;B. Brabson;J. Brom;S. Gray;C. Jung;H. Neal;H. Ogren;D. Rust;M. Valdata-Nappi;C. Akerlof;G. Bonvicini;J. Chapman;D. Errede;N. Harnew;P. Kesten;D. Meyer;D. Nitz;A. Seidl;R. Thun;T. Trinko;M. Willutzky;S. Abachi;P. Baringer;U. Mallik;I. Beltrami;B. Bylsma;R. Debonte;F. Loeffler;E. H. Low;R. McIlwain;D. Miller;C. Ng;L. K. Rangan;E. Shibata;B. Cork
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M. Derrick;K. Gan;P. Kooijman;J. Loos;B. Musgrave;L. Price;J. Repond;J. Schlereth;K. Sugano;J. Weiss;D. E. Wood;G. Baranko;D. Blockus;B. Brabson;J. Brom;S. Gray;C. Jung;H. Neal;H. Ogren;D. Rust;M. Valdata-Nappi;C. Akerlof;G. Bonvicini;J. Chapman;D. Errede;N. Harnew;P. Kesten;D. Meyer;D. Nitz;A. Seidl;R. Thun;T. Trinko;M. Willutzky;S. Abachi;P. Baringer;U. Mallik;I. Beltrami;B. Bylsma;R. Debonte;F. Loeffler;E. H. Low;R. McIlwain;D. Miller;C. Ng;L. K. Rangan;E. Shibata;B. Cork
This paper presents the charged-particle multiplicity distributions for e/sup +/e/sup -/ annihilation at ..sqrt..s = 29 GeV measured in the High Resolution Spectrometer. The data, which correspond to an integrated luminosity of 185 pb/sup -1/, were obtained at the SLAC e/sup +/e/sup -/ storage ring PEP. The techniques used to correct the observed prong numbers are discussed. The multiplicity distribution of the charged particles has a mean value = 12.87 +- 0.03 +- 0.30, a dispersion D/sub 2/ = 3.67 +- 0.02 +- 0.18, and an f/sub 2/ moment of 0.60 +- 0.02 +- 0.18. Results are also presented for a two-jet sample selected with low sphericity and aplanarity. The charged-particle distributions are almost Poissonian and narrower than have been reported by other e/sup +/e/sup -/ experiments in this energy range. The mean multiplicity increases with the event sphericity, and for the sample of threefold-symmetric three-jet events, a value of = 16.3 +- 0.3 +- 0.7 is found. No correlation is observed between the multiplicities in the two hemispheres when the events are divided into two jets by a plane perpendicular to the thrust axis. This result is in contrast with the situation in soft hadronic collisions, where a strongmore » forward-backward correlation is measured. For the single jets, a mean multiplicity of 6.43 +- 0.02 +- 0.15 and a dispersion value of D/sub 2/ = 2.55 +- 0.02 +- 0.13 are found. These values give further support to the idea of independent jet fragmentation. The multiplicity distributions are well fit by the negative-binomial distribution.« less