R. Akers et al., COMPARISONS OF THE PROPERTIES OF FINAL-STATE PHOTONS IN HADRONIC Z(0)DECAYS WITH PREDICTIONS FROM MATRIX ELEMENT CALCULATIONS, Zeitschrift fur Physik. C, Particles and fields, 67(1), 1995, pp. 15-26
The properties of hadronic Z(0) decays with final state photons, measu
red with OPAL at LEP, have been compared with predictions from two dif
ferent matrix element calculations of O(alpha alpha(s)). Two calculati
ons, GNJETS and EEPRAD, have been investigated which use different sch
emes to restrict the phase space around the poles of the cross section
. Assuming the E0-JADE jet definition, both calculations describe the
data well in large regions of phase space for gamma(cut) values around
0.06. For very large and very small jet-photon masses some deviations
from the predictions have been found, indicating the importance of hi
gher order corrections. Significant differences between the calculatio
ns are only apparent in the predicted rate of 1-jet plus photon events
. The rate is higher in GNJETS which reproduces the data better than E
EPRAD.