Particle multiplicity of unbiased gluon jets from e+e− three-jet events
Author(s) -
G. Abbiendi,
C. Ainsley,
P.F. Åkesson,
G. Alexander,
J. Allison,
G. Anagnostou,
K. J. Anderson,
S. Arcelli,
S. Asai,
D. Axen,
G. Azuelos,
I. Bailey,
E. L. Barberio,
R. J. Barlow,
R. J. Batley,
P. Bechtle,
T. Behnke,
K. W. Bell,
P. J. Bell,
G. Bella,
A. Bellerive,
G. Benelli,
S. Bethke,
O. Biebel,
I.J. Bloodworth,
O. Boeriu,
P. Bock,
J. Böhme,
D. Bonacorsi,
M. Boutemeur,
S. Braibant,
L. Brigliadori,
R. M. Brown,
H. Burckhart,
J. Cammin,
S. Campana,
R.K. Carnegie,
B. Caron,
A. A. Carter,
J. R. Carter,
C. Y. Chang,
D. G. Charlton,
P. E. L. Clarke,
E. Clay,
I. Cohen,
J. Couchman,
A. Csilling,
M. Cuffiani,
S. Dado,
G. M. Dallavalle,
S. Dallison,
A. De Roeck,
E. A. De Wolf,
P. Dervan,
K. Desch,
B. Dienes,
M. Donkers,
J. Dubbert,
E. Duchovni,
G. Duckeck,
I. P. Duerdoth,
E. Etzion,
F. Fabbri,
L. Feld,
P. Ferrari,
F. Fiedler,
I. Fleck,
M. Ford,
A. Frey,
A. Fürtjes,
D. I. Futyan,
P. Gag,
J. W. Gary,
G. Gaycken,
Ch. Geich-Gimbel,
P. Giacomelli,
M. Giunta,
Joel O. Goldberg,
K. Graham,
E. Gross,
J. Grunhaus,
M. Gruwé,
P. O. Günther,
A. Gupta,
C. Hajdu,
M. Hamann,
Gail Hanson,
K. Harder,
A. Harel,
M. Harin-Dirac,
M. Hauschild,
J. Hauschildt,
C. M. Hawkes,
R. Hawkings,
R.J. Hemingway,
C. Hensel,
G. Herten,
R. D. Heuer,
J. C. Hill,
K. D. Hoffman,
R. J. Homer,
D. Horváth,
K. R. Hossain,
Robert Howard,
P. Hüntemeyer,
P. Igo-Kemenes,
K. Ishii,
A. Jawahery,
H. Jeremie,
C. R. Jones,
P. Jovanovic,
T. R. Junk,
N. Kanaya,
J. Kanzaki,
G. Karapetian,
D. Karlen,
V. Kartvelishvili,
K. Kawagoe,
T. Kawamoto,
R. Keeler,
R. G. Kellogg,
B. W. Kennedy,
DH Kim,
K. Klein,
A. Klier,
S. Kluth,
T. Kobayashi,
M. Kobel,
T. P. Kokott,
Sachio Komamiya,
R. Kowalewski,
T. Krämer,
T. Kress,
J. von Krogh,
D. Krop,
T. Kuhl,
M. Kupper,
P. Kyberd,
G. Lafferty,
H. Landsman,
D. Lanske,
I. Lawson,
J. G. Layter,
A. Leins,
D. Lellouch,
J. Letts,
L. Levinson,
J. Lillich,
C. Littlewood,
S. L. Lloyd,
F. K. Loebinger,
J. G. Lu,
J. Ludwig,
A. Macchiolo,
A. Macpherson,
W. Mader,
S. Marcellini,
T.E. Marchant,
A. J. Martin,
J. P. Martin,
G. Martı́nez,
G. Masetti,
T. Mashimo,
P. Mättig,
W. J. McDonald,
J. A. McKenna,
T. McMahon,
R. A. McPherson,
F. Meijers,
P. Mendez-Lorenzo,
W. Menges,
F. S. Merritt,
H. Mes,
A. Michelini,
S. Mihara,
G. Mikenberg,
D. J. Miller,
S. Moed,
W. Mohr,
T. Mori,
A. Mutter,
K. Nagai,
I. Nakamura,
H. A. Neal,
R. Nisius,
S. W. O'Neale,
A. Oh,
A. Okpara,
M. J. Oreglia,
S. Orito,
C. Pahl,
G. Pásżtor,
J. R. Pater,
G. N. Patrick,
J. E. Pilcher,
J. Pinfold,
D. E. Plane,
B. Poli,
J. Polok,
O. Pooth,
A. Quadt,
K. Rabbertz,
C. Rembser,
P. Renkel,
H. Rick,
N. Rodning,
J. M. Roney,
S. Rosati,
K. Roscoe,
Y. Rozen,
K. Runge,
D. R. Rust,
K. Sachs,
T. Saeki,
O. Sahr,
E. K.G. Sarkisyan,
A. D. Schaile,
O. Schaile,
P. Scharff-Hansen,
M. Schröder,
M. Schumacher,
C. Schwick,
W. G. Scott,
R. Seuster,
T. Shears,
B. C. Shen,
C. H. Shepherd-Themistocleous,
M. Shapiro,
A. Skuja,
A. M. Smith,
G. A. Snow,
R. Sobie,
S. SöldnerRembold,
S. Spagnolo,
F. Spanò,
M. Sproston,
A. Stahl,
K. Stephens,
D. Strom,
R. Strühmer,
L. Stumpf,
B. Surrow,
S. Tarem,
M. Tasevsky,
RJ Taylor,
R. J. Teuscher,
J. H. Thomas,
M. Thomson,
E. Torrence,
D. Toya,
T. Trefzger,
A. Tricoli,
I. M. Trigger,
Zoltán László Trócsányi,
E. Tsur,
M. F. Watson,
I. Ueda,
B. Ujvári,
B. Vachon,
C. F. Vollmer,
P. Vannerem,
M. Verzocchi,
H. Voss,
J. H. Vossebeld,
D. Waller,
C. P. Ward,
D. R. Ward,
P. M. Watkins,
A. T. Watson,
N. K. Watson,
P. S. Wells,
T. Wengler,
N. Wermes,
D. Wetterling,
G. Wilson,
T. R. Wyatt,
S. Yamashita,
V. Zacek,
D. Zer-Zion
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
the european physical journal c
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.938
H-Index - 198
eISSN - 1434-6052
pISSN - 1434-6044
DOI - 10.1007/s100520200926
Subject(s) - physics , multiplicity (mathematics) , particle physics , gluon , hadron , jet (fluid) , quark , energy (signal processing) , quark–gluon plasma , geometry , thermodynamics , quantum mechanics , mathematics
The charged particle multiplicities of two- and three-jet events from thereaction e+e- -> Z0 -> hadrons are measured for Z0 decays to light quark (uds)flavors. Using recent theoretical expressions to account for biases from eventselection, results corresponding to unbiased gluon jets are extracted over arange of jet energies from about 11 to 30 GeV. We find consistency betweenthese results and direct measurements of unbiased gluon jet multiplicity fromupsilon and Z0 decays. The unbiased gluon jet data including the directmeasurements are compared to corresponding results for quark jets. We performfits based on analytic expressions for particle multiplicity in jets todetermine the ratio r = Ng/Nq of multiplicities between gluon and quark jets asa function of energy. We also determine the ratio of slopes, r(1) =(dNg/dy)/(dNq/dy), and of curvatures, r(2) = (d2Ng/dy2)/(d2Nq/dy2), where yspecifies the energy scale. At 30 GeV, we find r = 1.422 +/- 0.051, r(1) =1.761 +/- 0.071 and r(2) = 1.98 +/- 0.13, where the uncertainties are thestatistical and systematic terms added in quadrature. These results are ingeneral agreement with theoretical predictions. In addition, we use themeasurements of the energy dependence of Ng and Nq to determine an effectivevalue of the ratio of QCD color factors, CA/CF. Our result, CA/CF = 2.23 +/-0.14 (total), is consistent with the QCD value of 2.25.
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