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Heavy quarks and QCD in [ital e][sup +][ital e][sup [minus]] collisions

Conference · · AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States)
OSTI ID:5473695
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  1. II. Institute fuer Experimentalphysik der Universitaet Hamburg and DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D-2000 Hamburg 52 (Germany)
Recent investigations of QCD aspects of heavy quark events in [ital e][sup +][ital e][sup [minus]] collisions are presented. Using three jet fractions in these events the flavor independence of the coupling constant of QCD, [alpha][sub [ital s]], is verified: [alpha][sup [ital b]][sub [ital s]]/[alpha][sup [ital udsc]][sub [ital s]]=1.01[plus minus]0.03[plus minus]0.03. The average scaled energy of charmed and bottom hadrons in decays of the Z[sup 0] is determined. Comparing these results with measurements at lower energies clear evidence for scaling violation is established. Studies of the shape of the fragmentation function do not yet allow a significant discrimination between different theoretical models. A study of the differences between quark and gluon jets performed in a model independent way establishes, that gluon jets are softer and broader compared to quark jets in the same environment.
OSTI ID:
5473695
Report Number(s):
CONF-920837--
Conference Information:
Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States) Journal Volume: 272:1
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English