1. A measurement of charged particle multiplicity in Z0 → cc̄ and Z0 → bb̄ events
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Gideon Bella, H. J. Burckhart, Jacqueline Batley, A. Buijs, D. M. Strom, Margret Fincke-Keeler, C. Stegmann, F. S. Merritt, M. Fanti, P. Igo-Kemenes, H. Fukui, H. Jeremie, R. E. Hughes-Jones, U. Maur, Xinchou Lou, W. Matthews, Reda Tafirout, J. A. McKenna, H. M. Fischer, E. do Couto e Silva, M. A. Thomson, M. W. Redmond, S. Braibant, A. Michelini, M. F. Turner-Watson, M. Morii, Peter R Hobson, P. Routenburg, Gregor Herten, E. K. U. Gross, A. Gaidot, T. Wlodek, Silvia Arcelli, M. Sproston, Dave Charlton, B. Wilkens, D. E. Plane, G. A. Snow, C. P. Ward, D. L. Rees, M. J. Oreglia, R. Bartoldus, A. Yeaman, G. M. Dallavalle, R. Bürgin, B. Fabbro, Sachio Komamiya, Theodoros Geralis, E. Ros, A. T. Watson, R. D. Heuer, Fabrizio Fabbri, S. A. Robins, E. Lefebvre, H. O. Ogren, Christoph Geich-Gimbel, N. Tesch, S. Söldner-Rembold, T. P. Kokott, John Allison, A. Luig, R. W. Springer, P. S. Wells, Matthias Schröder, J. E. Pilcher, T. J. Smith, K. Stephens, C. Y. Chang, Terry Richard Wyatt, Tohru Takeshita, N. K. Watson, R. Van Kooten, F. Odorici, Erez Etzion, J. R. Carter, G. N. Patrick, N. J. Oldershaw, R. G. Kellogg, W. R. Gibson, R.J. Akers, R. Mir, Otmar Biebel, T. Hilse, Georges Azuelos, Stefan Kluth, F. X. Gentit, Barry King, D. L. Wagner, J. E. Conboy, A. Fürtjes, A. Beck, Shlomit Tarem, Shlomo Dado, Stefano Marcellini, T. G. Shears, E. Heflin, K. W. Bell, P. Taras, R. M. Brown, Lorne Levinson, H. Deng, I. J. Bloodworth, O. Schaile, O. Runolfsson, P. Gagnon, W. Mohr, P. D. Phillips, C. J. Oram, J. C. Hill, Gilles Beaudoin, W. P. Lai, Michael Kobel, Misao Sasaki, D. M. Gingrich, A. Skillman, J. Lauber, V. Gibson, B. C. Shen, B. Stockhausen, Paul Kyberd, M. Starks, F. K. Loebinger, A. M. Rossi, R. P. Middleton, A. I. McNab, Giora Mikenberg, Ehud Duchovni, T. Tsukamoto, P. Berlich, R. Howard, Siegfried Bethke, A. K. Honma, B. Nijjhar, J. Letts, Claude Leroy, J. Goldberg, W. G. Scott, H. Takeda, J. P. Pansart, P. A. Elcombe, Paolo Giacomelli, J. M. Roney, M. Settles, Norbert Wermes, Sherry Towers, C. Beeston, T. Kawamoto, M. Hansroul, B. Nellen, R. Giacomelli, D. R. Rust, F. G. Oakham, Claudio Grandi, Julie Kirk, M. Jimack, H. Lafoux, P. Leblanc, Yoram Rozen, G. W. Wilson, G. T. Zorn, M. Hauschild, S. Orito, M. Yurko, M. Rosvick, N. I. Geddes, M. J. Losty, E. L. Barberio, D. R. Ward, T. Kress, H. Mes, Madjid Boutemeur, I. P. Duerdoth, C. H. Shepherd-Themistocleous, C. Markus, P. W. Jeffreys, M. Foucher, A. M. Lee, P. Fath, N. L. Rodning, R. J. Homer, H. G. Evans, F. Scharf, F. Palmonari, B. Poli, M. J. Goodrick, P. A. Hart, I. Cohen, A. D. Schaile, P. G. Estabrooks, R. K. Keeler, D. Rigby, R. J. Hemingway, H. M. Bosch, Wolfram Dietrich Zeuner, M. J. Pearce, S. W. Gensler, G. A. Beck, Gunter Wolf, P. Bright-Thomas, Junichi Kanzaki, Achim Stahl, P. Teixeira-Dias, S. J. Hillier, B. W. Kennedy, D. Karlen, P. M. Watkins, C. Burgard, P. Poffenberger, P. Jovanovic, J. J. Ward, Austin Ball, P. Vikas, B. Schmitt, S. Wotton, D. Hochman, Peter Krieger, Peter Fischer, Manuella Vincter, Alessandro Montanari, U. Müller, P. Schütz, A. Posthaus, C. Dallapiccola, A. J. Martin, J. D. Gillies, R. J. Barlow, S. G. Clowes, D. J. Miller, M. Fierro, J. E.G. Edwards, C. Darling, C. K. Hargrove, O. Tousignant, P. Mättig, Shoji Asai, S. W. O'Neale, K. J. Anderson, C. M. Hawkes, Daniel Lellouch, T. Behnke, Takehiko Mori, Stephen Lloyd, M. Tecchio, V. Zacek, R. Kowalewski, Taizo Kobayashi, K. Ametewee, Gideon Alexander, Paolo Capiluppi, D. Axen, A. Jawahery, Peter Sherwood, Alexander Wagner, J. Hagemann, J. Ludwig, K. Runge, P. Bock, O. C. Cooke, P. Scharff-Hansen, Hans-Christian Schultz-Coulon, J. G. Layter, Randall Sobie, Michael Schulz, G. D. Lafferty, T. W. Pritchard, C. Charlesworth, N. Capdevielle, Guenter Duckeck, J. von Krogh, A. M. Smith, Dave Robinson, A. S. Turcot, G. Vasseur, B. Lorazo, R. Lahmann, D. C. Imrie, V. H. Winterer, L. A. del Pozo, James Pinfold, C. Sbarra, D. G. Fong, J. Gascon, G. P. Siroli, J. King, P. Szymanski, Michael Dittmar, Christoph Schwick, G. Yekutieli, J. W. Gary, D. S. Koetke, A. A. Carter, Marcello Mannelli, J. E. Duboscq, Ron Folman, Roger Jones, Andris Skuja, C. Jui, G. D. Long, Stan Bentvelsen, Tetsuro Mashimo, P. Utzat, W. Gorn, M. G. Rison, Kiyotomo Kawagoe, T. J. McMahon, G. G. Hanson, J. Schwiening, R. K. Carnegie, J. A. Wilson, P. Weber, G. Giacomelli, P. Schenk, J. Steuerer, M. S. Dixit, J. C. Clayton, Frans Meijers, P. E.L. Clarke, U. C. Dunwoody, M. K. Jones, J. P. Martin, M. Tscheulin, S. De Jong, H. Przysiezniak, Marco Cuffiani, and S. L. Chu
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Quantum chromodynamics ,Physics ,Quark ,Nuclear physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Meson ,Electron–positron annihilation ,Multiplicity (mathematics) ,Bottom quark ,Charged particle - Abstract
We have used data from the OPAL detector at LEP to reconstruct D∗ mesons and secondary vertices in jets. We have studied the hemispheres of the events opposite these jets and obtain values of the hemisphere charged particle multiplicity in Z0 → uu, dd, ss, Z0 → cc and Z0 → bb events of nuds = 10.41 ± 0.06 ± 0.09 ± 0.19; nc = 10.76 ± 0.20 ± 0.14 ± 0.19; nb = 11.81 ± 0.01 ± 0.12 ± 0.21 where the first errors are statistical, the second systmatic and the third a common scale uncertainty. We find the difference in total charged particle multiplicity between c and b quark events and light (u, d, s) quark events to be δcl = 0.69 ± 0.51 ± 0.35; δbl = 2.79 ± 0.12 ± 0.27. These results are compared to the predictions of various models and QCD based calculations.
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- 1995
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