Measurement of Leading Particle Effects in Decays of Z0 Bosons into Light Flavors

SLD Collaboration

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Abstract

We present evidence for leading particle production in hadronic decays of the Z0 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, Λ, K-, and anti K¯*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 Z0 decay, and that ss¯ production is suppressed in fragmentation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)3442-3446
Number of pages5
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume78
Issue number18
DOIs
StatePublished - May 5 1997

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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