夸克喷注和胶子喷注硬度特性的研究

用蒙特卡洛模拟方法研究了Z⁰强子衰变中的三喷注事件.用b标记方法辨别,得到夸克喷注和胶子喷注.定义了一个新的物理量—硬度.分别计算了发射了胶子的夸克喷注和胶子喷注的硬度分布.通过胶子和夸克喷注的平均多重数和平均横动量对硬度的依赖性以及他们的多重数和横动量在相同硬度区间内的分布情况的计算与比较,发现夸克喷注和胶子喷注的硬度特性有显著的差别.夸克喷注的特性几乎与硬度无关,而胶子喷注的特性与硬度之间存在较强的关联.当Hd>10GeV时,胶子喷注的平均多重数和平均横动量都明显地大于夸克喷注的平均多重数和平均横动量;而当H_d<6GeV时,结果正好相反.这表明,只是对于较硬的胶子,胶子喷注比夸克喷注“胖”的结论才能成立.     

胶子喷注和夸克喷注性质的蒙特卡洛研究

用蒙特卡洛方法研究了91.2GeV e⁺e^－碰撞产生的3喷注事件.用3个喷注之间的夹角来标识各个喷注,分别计算了3个喷注的能量及能量分布,并在相同能量下计算了3个喷注的多重数,横动量及其分布.通过与能量相同的2喷注事件中单夸克喷注的上述性质的比较,得到了从3喷注事件中挑选胶子喷注和夸克喷注的一种简便方法.这样挑选出来的胶子和夸克喷注在性质上与QCD的理论预言一致,并且胶子和夸克喷注的平均多重数比值的计算结果与实验观测值符合     

夸克胶子喷注的人工神经网络识别研究

为了将人工神经网络用于高能物理中对喷注的分类识别,用从高能正负电子对撞的蒙特卡洛模拟中得到的不对称三喷注事件中的夸克喷注和胶子喷注的平均多重数、平均横动量和两类喷注所对的夹角的平均值作为输入BP神经网络的3个特征参量,对2?.5—2?2?.5GeV能区的8个能量间隔进行等精度的训练.用训练好的神经网络模型对不对称三喷注事件中的夸克喷注和胶子喷注样本进行检验判定,并对混合喷注样本进行分类识别.所得结果表明,有望将人工神经网络用于高能正负电子对撞产生的喷注的分类分析.     

高能强子–强子碰撞中喷注性质的蒙特卡洛研究

在喷注“圆锥判定法”的基础上,对高能强子–强子碰撞中产生的喷注(微喷注)的性质进行了蒙特卡洛研究.采用以喷注动量为z轴的“喷注坐标系”,给出了表征喷注性质的各物理量在新坐标系中的分布情况.结果表明,圆锥判定法能够作为一种有效手段来对高能强子–强子碰撞和相对论重离子碰撞中发生的硬和半硬过程开展实验研究.由有喷注事件和无喷注事件的多重数分布可以看到,E_t=2GeV是用圆锥法确定喷注的合理的横能截断值.     

高能强子–强子碰撞中硬软过程的比较分析

根据QCD中“圆锥定义”来确定喷注,对高能强子-强子碰撞中的硬、软过程作细致的分析.用Pythia产生蒙特卡罗模拟样本,得到的喷注赝快度分布在中心区有平台,喷注内部的粒子密度和横能密度,随离喷注轴的距离指数地下降,比较发现对整个事件样本,单事件平均横动量或最大横动量与多重数是正关联的,而对喷注事件它们是负关联的.引入两个物理量来描述喷注事件的硬、软程度.发现它们与单事件平均横动量是正关联的,而与多重数是负关联的.表明用单事件平均横动量比用多重数能更好地描述喷注事件的硬软程度.     

e~＋e~－湮没中不同味道夸克喷注带电粒子多重数差别

利用“夸克产生律”与“夸克组合律”计算了ｅ＋ｅ－湮没中重夸克喷注事例的带电粒子多重数，结果与实验符合．并与轻夸克喷注事例及平均夸克味道喷注事例的多重数做了比较．     

e+e－湮没中不同味道夸克喷注带电粒子多重数差别

利用“夸克产生律”与“夸克组合律”计算了e⁺e^－湮没中重夸克喷注事例的带电粒子多重数,结果与实验符合.并与轻夸克喷注事例及平均夸克味道喷注事例的多重数做了比较.     

HERA分解光子过程中的双喷注产生

在次领头级(NLO)近似下计算了HERA分解光子过程中的双喷注截面.结果表明:在分解光子过程中,NLO修正量(当不变质量大于20GeV时)约为LO的0.5到1.这一结果可解释ZEUS的数据分析结果:“LOQCD理论值比实验值低1.5到2个因子.”当双喷注不变质量M_JJ<30GeV=,快度y_JJ<—1时,光子的胶子分布决定了双喷注截面.利用这一特点可测量光子的胶子分布.当双喷注不变质量较大时(例如:M_JJ>30GeV),-1JJ<0时,光子的夸克分布决定了双喷注截面,利用这一特点可测量光子的夸克分布.     

高能电子-正电子碰撞中产生喷注的标度

对高能电子-正电子对撞产生实验上可以直接观察的可视喷注的标度进行了仔细研究.根据在s=17—30Gev的电子-正电子对撞实验中最先观察到三喷注这一历史事实,论证了可视喷注的相对横动量kt.在5—10GeV/c的范围.并通过一个具体例子说明,只有k_t在这一范围时才能正确地判定事件中的喷注数.仔细比较了由不同k_t得到的喷注内部的动力学起伏,发现只有k_t在5—10GeV/c范围时,喷注内部系统才有最好的反常标度性.从而得到,可视喷注的标度是k_t～5—10GeV/c.讨论了这一标度和微扰QCD的标度1—2GeV之间的关系.     

夸克-胶子等离子体中的喷注-光子转换机制(英文)

提出了一种夸克 胶子等离子体中的喷注 光子转换机制。 对于热光子而言, 在热夸克 胶子媒介中的喷注 光子转换是一个非常重要的热光子来源。 喷注可以通过次级康普顿散射和湮灭过程来实现喷注 光子转换。 此外, 还考虑了在快光子产生过程中起重要修正作用的胶子 光子贡献, 其中,核遮蔽效应和同位旋效应也被引入到了部分子模型中。We develop a jet photon conversion mechanism in the expanding quark gluon plasma. The jet photon conversion in hot quark gluon medium is a vital source of the thermal photon production. The jet converts into photons via the secondary Compton and annihilation processes in the quark gluon plasma. The gluon photons are also considered in the calculation of prompt photons which includes the effect of the shadowing and isospin of nucleus. We find that the prompt gluon photons are also an important modification to prompt photons.     

Experimental properties of gluon and quark jets from a point source

Gluon jets are identified in hadronic Z decays as all the particles in a hemisphere opposite to a hemisphere containing two tagged quark jets. Gluon jets defined in this manner are equivalent to gluon jets produced from a color singlet point source and thus correspond to the definition employed for most theoretical calculations. In a separate stage of the analysis, we select quark jets in a manner to correspond to calculations, as the particles in hemispheres of flavor tagged light quark (uds) events. We present the distributions of rapidity, scaled energy, the logarithm of the momentum, and transverse momentum with respect to the jet axes, for charged particles in these gluon and quark jets. We also examine the charged particle multiplicity distributions of the jets in restricted intervals of rapidity. For soft particles at large , we observe the charged particle multiplicity ratio of gluon to quark jets to be , in agreement with the prediction that this ratio should approximately equal the ratio of QCD color factors, . The intervals used to define soft particles and large for this result, GeV/ and GeV/, are motivated by the predictions of the Herwig Monte Carlo multihadronic event generator. Additionally, our gluon jet data allow a sensitive test of the phenomenon of non-leading QCD terms known as color reconnection. We test the model of color reconnection implemented in the Ariadne Monte Carlo multihadronic event generator and find it to be disfavored by our data. Received: 24 February 1999 / Published online: 8 September 1999     

A comparison of b and uds quark jets to gluon jets

Symmetric three-jet events are selected from hadronic Z⁰ decays such that the two lower energy jets are each produced at an angle of about 150° with respect to the highest energy jet. In some cases, a displaced secondary vertex is reconstructed in one of the two lower energy jets, which permits the other lower energy jet to be identified as a gluon jet through anti-tagging. In other cases, the highest energy jet is tagged as a b jet or as a light quark (uds) jet using secondary vertex or track impact parameter and momentum information. Comparing the two lower energy jets of the events with a tag in the highest energy jet to the anti-tagged gluon jets yields a direct comparison of b, uds and gluon jets, which are produced with the same energy of about 24 GeV and under the same conditions. We observe b jets and gluon jets to have similar properties as measured by the angular distribution of particle energy around the jet directions and by the fragmentation functions. In contrast, gluon jets are found to be significantly broader and to have a markedly softer fragmentation function than uds jets. For the k _⊥ jet finder with y _cut=0.02, we find $${«ngle n^{? ch.}»ngle {? gluon}?er «ngle n^{? ch.}»ngle {? b} {? quark}}=1.089pm 0.024 ({? stat.})pm0.024 ({? syst.})$$ $${«ngle n^{? ch.}»ngle {? gluon}?er «ngle n^{? ch.}»ngle {? uds} {? quark}}=1.390pm 0.038 ({? stat.})pm0.032 ({? syst.})$$ as the ratios of the mean charged particle multiplicity in the gluon jets compared to the b and uds jets. Results are also reported using the cone jet finder.     

Multiplicities of \pi^0, \eta,\rm K^0 and of charged particles in quark and gluon jets

We compared the multiplicities of and of charged particles in quark and gluon jets in 3-jet events, as measured by the OPAL experiment at LEP. The comparisons were performed for distributions unfolded to 100% pure quark and gluon jets, at an effective scale which took into account topological dependences of the 3-jet environment. The ratio of particle multiplicity in gluon jets to that in quark jets as a function of for or was found to be independent of the particle species. This is consistent with the QCD prediction that the observed enhancement in the mean particle rate in gluon jets with respect to quark jets should be independent of particle species. In contrast to some theoretical predictions and previous observations, we observed no evidence for an enhancement of meson production in gluon jets with respect to quark jets, beyond that observed for charged particles. We measured the ratio of the slope of the average charged particle multiplicity in gluon jets to that in quark jets, C, and we compared it to a next-to-next-to-next-to leading order calculation. Our result, is about one standard deviation higher than the perturbative prediction. Received: 31 March 2000 / Published online: 25 September 2000     

The influence of fragmentation models in the production of hadron jets in electron–positron annihilation

The analysis of electron–positron annihilations to hadrons at high energies shows that apart from two-jet events, there are also signs of three-jet events which are interpreted according to the QCD, as a gluon radiated by a quark. In this paper, we investigate the fragmentation of quarks and gluons to hadron jets. We show that gluon jets have a higher multiplicity compared to quark jets of the same energy. Furthermore, inclusion of different flavours in the distributions shows that quark jets are flavour-dependent, but gluon jets are not. The differences between quark and gluon jets also manifest themselves in the fragmentation functions. We observe that the fragmentation for gluon jet is softer than that for quark jet, because the radiation of soft gluons is larger for gluon jets and that gluon cannot be present as a valence parton inside a produced hadron. We provide possible explanations for these features in this paper.     

Gluon and quark jets in a recursive model motivated by quantum chromodynamics

We compute observable quantities like the multiplicity and momentum distributions of hadrons in gluon and quark jets in the framework of a recursive cascade model, which is strongly motivated by the fundamental interactions of QCD. Fragmentation occurs via 3 types of breakups: quark → meson+ quark, gluon→meson+gluon, gluon→quark+ antiquark. In our model gluon jets are softer than quark jets. The ratio of gluon jet to quark jet multiplicity is found to be 2 asymptotically, but much less at lower energies. Some phenomenological consequences for λ decay are discussed.     

Measurements of the structure of quark and gluon jets in hadronic Z decays

An experimental investigation of the structure of identified quark and gluon jets is presented. Observables related to both the global and internal structure of jets are measured; this allows for tests of QCD over a wide range of transverse momentum scales. The observables include distributions of jet-shape variables, the mean and standard deviation of the subjet multiplicity distribution and the fragmentation function for charged particles. The data are compared with predictions of perturbative QCD as well as QCD-based Monte Carlo models. In certain kinematic regions the measurements are sensitive mainly to perturbatively calculable effects, allowing for a test of QCD. The comparisons are also extended into regions where nonperturbative effects become large, and in this way the transition from hard to soft QCD is investigated. It is found that by including leading and next-to-leading logarithmic contributions in the QCD predictions, the agreement with the data can be extended to lower transverse momentum scales, especially for gluon jets. Received: 2 February 1998 / Published online: August 9, 2000     

A comparison of b and uds quark jets to gluon jets

Symmetric three-jet events are selected from hadronic Z⁰ decays such that the two lower energy jets are each produced at an angle of about 150° with respect to the highest energy jet. In some cases, a displaced secondary vertex is reconstructed in one of the two lower energy jets, which permits the other lower energy jet to be identified as a gluon jet through anti-tagging. In other cases, the highest energy jet is tagged as a b jet or as a light quark (uds) jet using secondary vertex or track impact parameter and momentum information. Comparing the two lower energy jets of the events with a tag in the highest energy jet to the anti-tagged gluon jets yields a direct comparison of b, uds and gluon jets, which are produced with the same energy of about 24 GeV and under the same conditions. We observe b jets and gluon jets to have similar properties as measured by the angular distribution of particle energy around the jet directions and by the fragmentation functions. In contrast, gluon jets are found to be significantly broader and to have a markedly softer fragmentation function than uds jets. For thek _⊥ jet finder withy _cut=0.02, we find as the ratios of the mean charged particle multiplicity in the gluon jets compared to the b and uds jets. Results are also reported using the cone jet finder.     

Jet quenching versus jet enhancement: a quantitative study of the BDMPS-Z gluon radiation spectrum

We study the gluon radiation spectrum off a hard in-medium produced quark in the multiple soft-rescattering formalism of Baier–Dokshitzer–Mueller–Peigné–Schiff and of Zakharov (BDMPS-Z). Its dependence on the quark and gluon energy, on the gluon transverse momentum, on the in-medium pathlength and on the rescattering properties of the nuclear medium is analyzed quantitatively. The two components of gluon radiation, the hard vacuum radiation associated to the quark production vertex, and the medium-induced rescattering contribution interfere destructively. For small spatial extensions of the medium, this destructive interference overcompensates the hard vacuum radiation, and the total medium-induced radiative energy loss decreases as ΔE∝− L³. Medium-induced gluon production dominates only above a finite critical length L>L_crit which varies between 3 and more than 6 fm depending on the rescattering properties of the medium. Deviations from the BDMPS-L²-behaviour persist above L_crit. The medium-dependence of the angular gluon distribution is dominated by transverse brownian k-broadening. This results in a depletion of the low transverse momentum part of both the hard and the medium-induced contribution. As a consequence, the medium-induced energy loss outside a finite angular cone size Θ can be more than a factor two larger than the total medium-induced radiative energy loss. We discuss implications of these results for the jet quenching signal in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC.     

Identified charged particles in quark and gluon jets

A sample of 2.2 million hadronic Z decays, selected from the data recorded by the Delphi detector at Lep during 1994–1995 was used for an improved measurement of inclusive distributions of and p and their antiparticles in gluon and quark jets. The production spectra of the individual identified particles were found to be softer in gluon jets compared to quark jets, with a higher multiplicity in gluon jets as observed for inclusive charged particles. A significant proton enhancement in gluon jets is observed indicating that baryon production proceeds directly from colour objects. The maxima, , of the -distributions for kaons in gluon and quark jets are observed to be different. Received: 24 January 2000 / Revised version: 15 May 2000 / Published online: 8 September 2000