ISSN:
1434-6052
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Abstract Multihadron events resulting frome + e − annihilation at the Υ-resonance are analysed with respect to lowest order QCD which predicts a dominant Υ decay into three vector gluons. Smearing effects due to the gluon fragmentation are so large, however, that no clear 3-jet structure or flatness is expected in the hadron final state. Instead, Monte Carlo simulations predict event structures with thrust and triplicity distributions distinctly different from those of two quark-jet and of phase space like decay mechanisms. The data are in perfect agreement with the 3-vector gluon decay as predicted by QCD and exclude dominantly phase space like or 2-quark jet decays. Also, the decay into scalar gluons is excluded by the data. An upper limit for the Υ-decay into one photon and two gluons is obtained.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01547873
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