Evidence for an excess of soft photons in hadronic decays of Z0

Soft photons inside hadronic jets converted in front of the DELPHI main tracker (TPC) in events of qqbar disintegrations of the Z^0 were studied in the kinematic range 0.2 < E_gamma < 1 GeV and transverse momentum with respect to the closest jet direction p_T < 80 MeV/c. A clear excess of photons in the experimental data as compared to the Monte Carlo predictions is observed. This excess (uncorrected for the photon detection efficiency) is (1.17 +/- 0.06 +/- 0.27) x 10^{-3} gamma/jet in the specified kinematic region, while the expected level of the inner hadronic bremsstrahlung (which is not included in the Monte Carlo) is (0.340 +/- 0.001 +/- 0.038) x 10^{-3} gamma/jet. The ratio of the excess to the predicted bremsstrahlung rate is then (3.4 +/- 0.2 +/- 0.8), which is similar in strength to the anomalous soft photon signal observed in fixed target experiments with hadronic beams.

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37 pages, 9 figures, Accepted by Eur. Phys. J. C Report-no: CERN-PH-EP/2005-052 Journal-ref: Eur. Phys. J. C47 (2006) 273-294 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s2006-02568-8

electron positron: colliding beams
electron positron: annihilation
Z0: electroproduction
Z0: hadronic decay
photon: radiation
bremsstrahlung
photon: particle identification
efficiency
energy dependence
angular distribution

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