We present evidence for leading particle production in hadronic decays of the Z(0) boson to light-flavor jets. A polarized electron beam was used to tag quark and antiquark jets, and a vertex detector was employed to reject heavy-flavor events. Charged hadrons were identified with a Cherenkov ring imaging detector. In the quark jets, more high-momentum p, Lambda, K-, and (K) over bar(*0) were observed than their antiparticles, and vice versa for antiquark jets, providing direct evidence that the higher-momentum particles in jets are more likely to carry the primary quark or antiquark from the Z(0) decay, and that s (s) over bar production is suppressed in fragmentation.
Measurement of leading particle effects in decays of bosons into light flavors
BISELLO, DARIO;
1997
Abstract
We present evidence for leading particle production in hadronic decays of the Z(0) boson to light-flavor jets. A polarized electron beam was used to tag quark and antiquark jets, and a vertex detector was employed to reject heavy-flavor events. Charged hadrons were identified with a Cherenkov ring imaging detector. In the quark jets, more high-momentum p, Lambda, K-, and (K) over bar(*0) were observed than their antiparticles, and vice versa for antiquark jets, providing direct evidence that the higher-momentum particles in jets are more likely to carry the primary quark or antiquark from the Z(0) decay, and that s (s) over bar production is suppressed in fragmentation.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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