Constituent gluon interpretation of glueballs and gluelumps

Arguments are given that support the interpretation of the lattice QCD glueball and gluelump spectra in terms of bound states of massless constituent gluons with helicity 1. In this scheme, we show that the mass hierarchy of the currently known gluelumps and glueballs is mainly due to the number of constituent gluons and can be understood within a simple flux tube model. It is also argued that the lattice QCD 0^+- glueball should be seen as a four-gluon bound state. We finally predict the mass of the 0^- state, not yet computed in lattice QCD.     

Semi-classical models for gluon jets and leptoproduction based on the massless relativistic string

Based upon the dynamics of a massless relativistic string we propose a semi-classical model for a gluon jet. We also show a close but non-trivial similarity between a jet obtained in a leptoproduction event and the quark jets frome ⁺ e ^?-annihilation.     

A three-dimensional model for quark and gluon jets

Based on the assumption that a color force-field has a stringlike character (like a stretchedout bag_ with no excited degrees of freedom transverse to the field direction (which is strongly supported by the observed polarization of inclusively produced Λ-particles) we derive the probability to produce heavy flavor quark-antiquark pairs and pairs with transverse momentum in the field. We show how to incorporate the results into a soft hadronisation scheme for particle distributions in quark and gluon jets. We point to some non-trivial effects from the finite (longitudinal) size of the force-field which result on the one hand in important correlations between the longitudinal scaling variable and the transverse momentum and on the other hand leads to correstions to the simple iterative cascade scheme.     

Photoproduction with polarized photons as a source of polarized gluon jets

We show that, according to QCD, the direct Compton process γq→qg in polarized photoproduction leads to strongly polarized gluon jets. We also show that this process is expected to dominate in the reaction γp→π⁺ + opposite side jet + X. The study of the opposite side jet will give direct evidence for the spin of the gluon.     

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.     

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.     

Photoproduction of events with rapidity gaps between jets at HERA

The photoproduction of dijet events, where the two jets with the highest transverse energy are separated by a large gap in pseudorapidity, have been studied with the ZEUS detector using an integrated luminosity of 39 pb^-1. Rapidity-gap events are defined in terms of the energy flow between the jets, such that the total summed transverse energy in this region is less than some value E_T ^CUT. The data show a clear excess over the predictions of standard photoproduction models. This is interpreted as evidence for a strongly interacting exchange of a color-singlet object. Monte Carlo models which include such a color-singlet exchange are able to describe the data.     

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     

Measurement of the gluon fragmentation function and a comparison of the scaling violation in gluon and quark jets

The fragmentation functions of quarks and gluons are measured in various three-jet topologies in Z decays from the full data set collected with the Delphi detector at the Z resonance between 1992 and 1995. The results at different values of transverse momentum-like scales are compared. A parameterization of the quark and gluon fragmentation functions at a fixed reference scale is given. The quark and gluon fragmentation functions show the predicted pattern of scaling violations. The scaling violation for quark jets as a function of a transverse momentum-like scale is in a good agreement with that observed in lower energy annihilation experiments. For gluon jets it appears to be significantly stronger. The scale dependences of the gluon and quark fragmentation functions agree with the prediction of the DGLAP evolution equations from which the colour factor ratio is measured to be: Received: 5 November 1999 / Published online: 25 February 2000     

Investigation of the splitting of quark and gluon jets

The splitting processes in identified quark and gluon jets are investigated using longitudinal and transverse observables. The jets are selected from symmetric three-jet events measured in Z decays with the Delphi detector in 1991-1994. Gluon jets are identified using heavy quark anti-tagging. Scaling violations in identified gluon jets are observed for the first time. The scale energy dependence of the gluon fragmentation function is found to be about two times larger than for the corresponding quark jets, consistent with the QCD expectation . The primary splitting of gluons and quarks into subjets agrees with fragmentation models and, for specific regions of the jet resolution , with NLLA calculations. The maximum of the ratio of the primary subjet splittings in quark and gluon jets is . Due to non-perturbative effects, the data are below the expectation at small . The transition from the perturbative to the non-perturbative domain appears at smaller for quark jets than for gluon jets. Combined with the observed behaviour of the higher rank splittings, this explains the relatively small multiplicity ratio between gluon and quark jets. Received: 18 February 1998 / Published online: 24 April 1998     

Production of a Higgs boson accompanied by two jets via gluon fusion

Real-emission corrections to gg-->H, which lead to H+2 jet events, are calculated at order alpha(4)(s). Contributions include top-quark triangles, boxes, and pentagon diagrams and are evaluated analytically for arbitrary top mass m(t). This new source of H+2 jet events is compared to the weak-boson fusion cross section for a range of Higgs boson masses. The heavy top-mass approximation appears to work well for intermediate Higgs-boson masses, provided that the transverse momenta of the final-state partons are smaller than the top-quark mass.     

On the suppression of the gluon radiation for quark jets penetrating a dense quark gas

Suppression of the gluon-emission probability due to secondary scattering (the Landau-Pomeranchuk effect) is considered for an ultra-relativistic quark penetrating a dense gas of thermal quarks. With some appeal to QED, a simple expression for the suppression factor is obtained which reveals strong damping throughout the gluon spectrum for gas densities typical of nuclear matter. The suppression, which is due to multiple rather than single scattering, is in particular pronounced for soft gluon emission. The obtained reduction factor is believed to describe the damping of the Abelian radiation component to within a factor of \(\sqrt 2 \) . For the non-Abelian component comparison of emission and scattering angles hints at a suppression comparable to that pertaining to the Abelian component.     

Energy dependence of ratios of multiplicities and their slopes for gluon and quark jets

The difference between the ratio of multiplicities and the ratio of their derivatives with respect to energy for gluon and quark jets is calculated up to next-to-next-to leading order of perturbative QCD. Its nonzero value is uniquely defined by the running property of the QCD coupling constant. It is shown that this difference is rather small compared to values which can be obtained from experimental data. This disagreement can be ascribed either to strong nonperturbative terms or to experimental problems with a scale choice, jet separation, and inadequate assignment of soft particles to jets. Pis’ma Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 68, No. 7, 535–538 (10 October 1998) Published in English in the original Russian journal. Edited by Steve Torstveit.     

Quark and gluon jets in the breit frame of lepton-nucleon scattering

Gluon bremsstrahlung,q→Gq, and quark pair production from gluons,laggy, in deep inelastic reactions is investigated in the Breit frame (moving alongQ in the laboratory). These QCD effects diminish the overall forward momentum. There are also events with asingle largep _⊥ forward jet. One spectacular class of events is predicted in which no forward going hadrons emerge, in the Breit frame. These effects are not mimicked by nonperturbative (limitedp _⊥) parton jets at large but attainableQ ².     

The NLO jet vertex for Mueller-Navelet and forward jets: the gluon part

In this paper we complete our calculation of the NLO jet vertex which is part of the cross section formulae for the production of Mueller Navelet jets at hadron hadron colliders and of forward jets in deep inelastic electron proton scattering. Received: 2 September 2002 / Revised version: 16 January 2003 / Published online: 2 June 2003 RID="a" ID="a" Supported by the TMR Network "QCD and Deep Structure of Elementary Particles" RID="b" ID="b" Supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung