Quantum number effects in events with a charged particle of large transverse momentum: (II). Charge correlations in jets

Charge correlations of particles in an event with a large p_T triggering particle have been investigated applying a new method, which has been developed for non-diffractive inelastic hadronic events. The correlation length for charge compensation of the fragments of the hard scattered partons and of the spectators, respectively, are equal to that one in normal inelastic events. Part of the charge of the high p_T trigger particle is compensated by the soft particles of the “away jet”. These results support the idea that the rearrangement of quantum numbers in quark fragmentation shows a universal behaviour.