CHARGED-PARTICLE MULTIPLICITY IN E(-)-]Q(Q)OVER-BAR EVENTS AT 161 AND172 GEV AND FROM THE DECAY OF THE W-BOSON()E()

Authors
ABREU P ADAM W ADYE T AJINENKO I ALEKSEEV GD ALEMANY R ALLPORT PP ALMEHED S AMALDI U AMATO S ANDERSSON P ANDREAZZA A ANTILOGUS P APEL WD ARNOUD Y ASMAN B AUGUSTIN JE AUGUSTINUS A BAILLON P BAMBADE P BARAO F BARBI M BARDIN DY BARKER G BARONCELLI A BARRING O BATES MJ BATTAGLIA M BAUBILLIER M BAUDOT J BECKS KH BEGALLI M BEILLIERE P BELOKOPYTOV Y BELOUS K BENVENUTI AC BERAT C BERGGREN M BERTINI D BERTRAND D BESANCON M BIANCHI F BIGI M BILENKY MS BILLOIR P BIZOUARD MA BLOCH D BLUME M BONESINI M BONIVENTO W BOONEKAMP M BOOTH PSL BORGLAND AW BORISOV G BOSIO C BOTNER O BOUDINOV E BOUQUET B BOURDARIOS C BOWCOCK TJV BOZZO M BRANCHINI P BRAND KD BRENKE T BRENNER RA BROWN RCA BRUCKMAN P BRUNET JM BUGGE L BURAN T BURGSMUELLER T BUSCHMANN P CABRERA S CACCIA M CALVI M ROZAS AJC CAMPORESI T CANALE V CANEPA M CARENA F CARROLL L CASO C GIMENEZ MVC CATTAI A CAVALLO FR CHABAUD V CHARPENTIER P CHAUSSARD L CHECCHIA P CHELKOV GA CHEN M CHIERICI R CHLIAPNIKOV P CHOCHULA P CHOROWICZ V CHUDOBA J CINDRO V 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Citation
P. Abreu et al., CHARGED-PARTICLE MULTIPLICITY IN E(-)-]Q(Q)OVER-BAR EVENTS AT 161 AND172 GEV AND FROM THE DECAY OF THE W-BOSON()E(), Physics letters. Section B, 416(1-2), 1998, pp. 233-246
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics letters. Section B → ACNP
ISSN journal
03702693
Volume
416
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
233 - 246
Database
ISI
SICI code
0370-2693(1998)416:1-2<233:CMIEEA>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
The data collected by DELPHI in 1996 have been used to measure the ave rage charged particle multiplicities and dispersions in q (q) over bar events at centre-of-mass energies of root s = 161 GeV and root s = 17 2 GeV, and the average charge multiplicity in WW events at root s = 17 2 GeV. The multiplicities in q (q) over bar events are consistent with the evolution predicted by QCD. The dispersions in the multiplicity d istributions are consistent with Koba-Nielsen-Olesen (KNO) scaling. Th e average multiplicity of charged particles in hadronic W decays has b een measured for the first time; its value, 19.23 +/- 0.74(stat + syst ), is consistent with that expected for an e(+)e(-) interaction at a c entre-of-mass energy equal to the W mass. The charged particle multipl icity in W decays shows no evidence of effects of colour reconnection between partons from different W's at the present level of statistics. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.