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    Study of quark fragmentation in e(+)e(-) annihilation at 29 GeV: Charged-particle multiplicity and single-particle rapidity distributions

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    1986-12-01
    Author
    Baringer, Philip S.
    Publisher
    American Physical Society
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    Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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    Abstract
    This paper presents the charged-particle multiplicity distributions for e(+)e(-) annihilation at √s =29 GeV measured in the High Resolution Spectrometer. The data, which correspond to an integrated luminosity of 185 pb(-1), were obtained at the SLAC e(+)e(-) 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 〈n〉=12.87±0.03±0.30, a dispersion D2=3.67±0.02±0.18, and an f2 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(+)e(-) 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 〈n〉=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 strong forward-backward correlation is measured. For the single jets, a mean multiplicity of 6.43±0.02±0.15 and a dispersion value of D2=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. The semi-inclusive rapidity distributions are presented. Comparisons are made to the measurements of charged-particle multiplicities in hadron-hadron and lepton-nucleon collisions.
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    This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.34.3304
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/15222
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.34.3304
    ISSN
    1550-7998
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    Baringer, Philip S. et al. (1986). "Study of quark fragmentation in e+e- annihilation at 29 GeV: Charged-particle multiplicity and single-particle rapidity distributions." Physical Review D, 1986(34):3304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.34.3304

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