Predictions of {QCD} Fragmentation Models in e+ee^+ e^- Annihilation Up to s=200\sqrt{s}=200-{GeV}

Aug, 1988
32 pages
Published in:
  • Z.Phys.C 41 (1988) 375
Report number:
  • OXFORD-NP-43-88,
  • DESY-88-122

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Abstract: (Springer)
Results on event and single particle characteristics are presented for the three most successful perturbative QCD+fragmentation models in the c.m. energy range 12.0≦W≦200 GeV. The models were optimised to describe the properties of the large sample of hadronic events obtained by TASSO atW=35 GeV. The energy evolution of the observables across the range spanned by the PETRA and PEP data, 12.0≦〈W〉≦41.5 GeV, is reasonably well described by all the models. However, for some quantities the predictions of the different models diverge at higher energies; distributions of observables are shown at c.m. energies of 93 and 200 GeV, where data are expected from thee+e− colliders currently under construction. The ability to describe simultaneously, with the same parameter values, hadronic event features both at PETRA/PEP and LEP/SLC energies will provide a severe test of the models. The effects of top quark production on the event properties are illustrated for a top mass of 60 GeV/c2. Predictions are given for the rates of multijet events up toW=200 GeV, where ≧4-jet events dominate the cross section and will form a background to events containing heavy states which decay into hadron jets.
  • ELECTRON POSITRON: ANNIHILATION
  • ANNIHILATION: ELECTRON POSITRON
  • HADRON: ELECTROPRODUCTION
  • ELECTROPRODUCTION: HADRON
  • JET: ELECTROPRODUCTION
  • ELECTROPRODUCTION: JET
  • EVENT SHAPE ANALYSIS
  • TRANSVERSE MOMENTUM: SPECTRUM
  • SPECTRUM: TRANSVERSE MOMENTUM
  • CHARGED PARTICLE: MULTIPLICITY