R. Akers et al., INCLUSIVE STRANGE VECTOR AND TENSOR MESON PRODUCTION IN HADRONIC Z(0)DECAYS, Zeitschrift fur Physik. C, Particles and fields, 68(1), 1995, pp. 1-11
Measurements have been made in the OPAL experiment at LEP of the inclu
sive production of strange vector phi(1020) and K(892)(0) mesons, and
the tenser meson K-2 (1430)(0) The overall production rates per hadr
onic Z(0) decay have been determined to be 0.100 +/- 0.004(stat.) +/-
0.007(syst.) phi(1020) mesons, 0.74 +/- 0.03(stat.) +/- 0.03(syst.) K
(892)(0) mesons and (for x(E) < 0.3) 0.19 +/- 0.04(stat.) +/- 0.06(sys
t.) K-2 (1430)(0) mesons. The measurements for the vector states upda
te previously published results based on lower statistics, while the K
-2(1430)(0) rate represents the first direct measurement ment of a st
range tenser state in Z(0) decay. For the vector states, both the over
all production rates and normalised differential cross sections, with
respect to the scaled energy variable x(E), have been compared to JETS
ET and HERWIG predictions. The peak positions in the xi = In(1/x(p)) d
istributions have been measured and compared to measurements of other
hadron states.