1. Factorial and cumulant moments in e+ e- ---> hadrons at the Z0 resonance
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A. Chou, K.C. Moffeit, Y. Iwasaki, T. L. Usher, H. Park, A. Szumilo, J. Wyss, R. King, C. Zeitlin, D. J. Jackson, B. A. Schumm, Smith, R. Kroeger, C. Y. Prescott, D. Su, M. Kalelkar, DO Caldwell, T. Schalk, R. E. Cassell, P.E. Rensing, J. D. Turk, M. Dima, K.D. Shmakov, T. H. Burnett, S. F. Schaffner, R. Cowan, M. Piccolo, Roberto Dell'Orso, S. L. Shapiro, J. Va'vra, K. Hasuko, U. Nauenberg, J. Quigley, T. Takahashi, G. M. Bilei, G. R. Bower, James Shank, Andrea Castro, C. Vannini, A. Hasan, P Desimone, Shiro Suzuki, J.J. Reidy, Michael H. Shaevitz, M. Loreti, T. Akagi, MB Barakat, R. K. Yamamoto, L. Piemontese, B. Mours, X. Yang, Michael J. Fero, I. Abt, P. N. Burrows, Dario Bisello, A. Seiden, H. A. Neal, Stephen Watts, A. W. Weidemann, J. J. Russell, Enrico Pieroni, J. F. Labs, J. M. Yamartino, R. Cotton, D. C. Williams, N. B. Sinev, S. Willocq, L.S. Osborne, M. Cavalli-Sforza, J. S. Whitaker, R DeSangro, R. R. Kofler, G. H. Zapalac, Minghui Liu, J. A. Snyder, C. Simopoulos, P. E. Stamer, Martin Breidenbach, J. E. Brau, A. Lu, J. A. Jaros, M. Nussbaum, Alberto Benvenuti, A. I. Trandafir, A. Lath, D. Falciai, Young-Kee Kim, N.J. Allen, S. Manly, V. V. Serbo, G. Crawford, D. J. Sherden, H. Kawahara, P. M. Mockett, M. E. Huffer, J. Huber, E. R. Weiss, F. Suekane, Brian Meadows, R. Ben-David, D. W. G. S. Leith, T. Gillman, J.P. Venuti, C. Fan, C.J.S. Damerell, T.J. Pavel, R. Frey, J. Ma, I. Karliner, M. G. Strauss, Dominik Müller, M. Carpinelli, Rino Castaldi, H. O. Cohn, J. Zhou, R.D. Elia, G. E. Gladding, R.A. Johnson, Wagner, B. I. Eisenstein, G. Blaylock, R. W. Zdarko, R. Dubois, M.E. King, E. W. Hughes, S. H. Williams, R. Massetti, G. Mancinelli, P.Y.C. Du, G. D. Punkar, M. Langston, Rafe Schindler, S Narita, A. S. Johnson, E. Torrence, O. Bardon, R. Kajikawa, A. Sugiyama, H. J. Kang, O. H. Saxton, Hildreth, W. W. Ash, Timothy Barklow, R. Messner, H. R. Band, T. W. Reeves, Zhiqing Zhang, H. M. Steiner, E. Vella, Thomas W. Markiewicz, F. E. Taylor, Robert Wilson, R. S. Panvini, X. Liu, Fred Wickens, S. S. Hertzbach, P. C. Rowson, H. Yuta, Henry W. Kendall, A. Calcaterra, Cook, M. Daoudi, J. A. Coller, S. J. Hedges, T. Maruyama, R. Steiner, S. Gonzalez, J. A. Lauber, C. J. Ahn, Y. Ohnishi, Piero Giorgio Verdini, L. S. Rochester, Giancarlo Mantovani, H. Hwang, E. Church, T. Bolton, T. Junk, K. T. Pitts, K.G. Baird, David A. Williams, A. K. McKemey, Gilbert Shapiro, G. B. Word, G. Baranko, R. Verdier, E. L. Hart, S. L. White, M. Swartz, William J. Wisniewski, Johnson, A.B. d'Oliveira, R.J. Plano, K. Abe, M. Woods, G. Hallewell, HL Lynch, R. Prepost, P.F. Jacques, A. O. Bazarko, B. N. Ratcliff, C. Baltay, H. Masuda, I. M. Peruzzi, E. Mazzucato, Wit Busza, A. P. Waite, K. Furuno, Yukio Hasegawa, D. G. Coyne, D. L. Burke, W. M. Bugg, C. C. Young, S. J. Yellin, S. Sen, N.M. Krishna, Bogart, T. Nagamine, D. Aston, D. Calloway, E. Etzion, B. Camanzi, Abe, K, Abt, I, Ahn, C, Akagi, T, Allen, N, Ash, W, Aston, D, Baird, K, Baltay, C, Band, H, Barakat, M, Baranko, G, Bardon, O, Barklow, T, Bazarko, A, Bendavid, R, Benvenuti, A, Bilei, G, Bisello, D, Blaylock, G, Bogart, J, Bolton, T, Bower, G, Brau, J, Breidenbach, M, Bugg, W, Burke, D, Burnett, T, Burrows, P, Busza, W, Calcaterra, A, Caldwell, D, Calloway, D, Camanzi, B, Carpinelli, M, Cassell, R, Castaldi, R, Castro, A, Cavallisforza, M, Chou, A, Church, E, Cohn, H, Coller, J, Cook, V, Cotton, R, Cowan, R, Coyne, D, Crawford, G, Doliveira, A, Damerell, C, Daoudi, M, Desangro, R, Desimone, P, Dellorso, R, Dima, M, Du, P, Dubois, R, Eisenstein, B, Elia, R, Etzion, E, Falciai, D, Fan, C, Fero, M, Frey, R, Furuno, K, Gillman, T, Gladding, G, Gonzalez, S, Hallewell, G, Hart, E, Hasan, A, Hasegawa, Y, Hasuko, K, Hedges, S, Hertzbach, S, Hildreth, M, Huber, J, Huffer, M, Hughes, E, Hwang, H, Iwasaki, Y, Jackson, D, Jacques, P, Jaros, J, Johnson, A, Johnson, J, Johnson, R, Junk, T, Kajikawa, R, Kalelkar, M, Kang, H, Karliner, I, Kawahara, H, Kendall, H, Kim, Y, King, M, King, R, Kofler, R, Krishna, N, Kroeger, R, Labs, J, Langston, M, Lath, A, Lauber, J, Leith, D, Liu, M, Liu, X, Loreti, M, Lu, A, Lynch, H, Ma, J, Mancinelli, G, Manly, S, Mantovani, G, Markiewicz, T, Maruyama, T, Massetti, R, Masuda, H, Mazzucato, E, Mckemey, A, Meadows, B, Messner, R, Mockett, P, Moffeit, K, Mours, B, Muller, D, Nagamine, T, Narita, S, Nauenberg, U, Neal, H, Nussbaum, M, Ohnishi, Y, Osborne, L, Panvini, R, Park, H, Pavel, T, Peruzzi, I, Piccolo, M, Piemontese, L, Pieroni, E, Pitts, K, Plano, R, Prepost, R, Prescott, C, Punkar, G, Quigley, J, Ratcliff, B, Reeves, T, Reidy, J, Rensing, P, Rochester, L, Rowson, P, Russell, J, Saxton, O, Schaffner, S, Schalk, T, Schindler, R, Schumm, B, Seiden, A, Sen, S, Serbo, V, Shaevitz, M, Shank, J, Shapiro, G, Shapiro, S, Sherden, D, Shmakov, K, Simopoulos, C, Sinev, N, Smith, S, Snyder, J, Stamer, P, Steiner, H, Steiner, R, Strauss, M, Su, D, Suekane, F, Sugiyama, A, Suzuki, S, Swartz, M, Szumilo, A, Takahashi, T, Taylor, F, Torrence, E, Trandafir, A, Turk, J, Usher, T, Vavra, J, Vannini, C, Vella, E, Venuti, J, Verdier, R, Verdini, P, Wagner, S, Waite, A, Watts, S, Weidemann, A, Weiss, E, Whitaker, J, White, S, Wickens, F, Williams, D, Williams, S, Willocq, S, Wilson, R, Wisniewski, W, Woods, M, Word, G, Wyss, J, Yamamoto, R, Yamartino, J, Yang, X, Yellin, S, Young, C, Yuta, H, Zapalac, G, Zdarko, R, Zeitlin, C, Zhang, Z, and Zhou, J
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Factorial ,Electron–positron annihilation ,Hadron ,Perturbative QCD ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Function (mathematics) ,Resonance (particle physics) ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Nuclear physics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Cumulant ,Multiplicity distribution - Abstract
We present the first experimental study of the ratio of cumulant to factorial moments of the charged-particle multiplicity distribution in high-energy particle interactions, using hadronic Z$^0$ decays collected by the SLD experiment at SLAC. We find that this ratio, as a function of the moment-rank $q$, decreases sharply to a negative minimum at $q=5$, which is followed by quasi-oscillations. These features are insensitive to experimental systematic effects and are in qualitative agreement with expectations from next-to-next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD., Comment: 13 pages, latex file, uuencoded eps figures