Observables for the Analysis of Event Shapes in e+ e- Annihilation and Other Processes

Aug, 1978
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 41 (1978) 1581
Report number:
  • CALT-68-680

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Abstract: (APS)
We present a set of rotationally invariant observables which characterizes the "shapes" of events, and is calculable in quantum-chromodynamics perturbation theory for final states consisting of quarks and gluons (G). We include the effects of fragmentation to hadrons in comparing the shapes of events from the processes e+e−→qq¯, e+e−→qq¯G, and e+e−→heavyresonance→GGG, and from heavy-quark and lepton production. We indicate how our analysis may be extended to deep-elastic lepton-hadron interactions and hadron-hadron collisions involving large transverse momenta.
  • ELECTRON POSITRON: ANNIHILATION
  • ANNIHILATION: ELECTRON POSITRON
  • HADRON: ELECTROPRODUCTION
  • ELECTROPRODUCTION: HADRON
  • HADRON: MULTIPLE PRODUCTION
  • MULTIPLE PRODUCTION: HADRON
  • MODEL: INTERACTION
  • INTERACTION: MODEL
  • QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS: PERTURBATION THEORY
  • QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS: INFRARED PROBLEM