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| Author(s): |
The SLD Collaboration |
| Presenting author:
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Tracy Usher |
| Corresponding author's
e-mail: |
usher@slac.stanford.edu |
| Title of the
presentation: |
A Study of Correlations
Between Identified Charged Hadrons in Hadronic Z0
decays |
| Link to the full
paper: |
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| Session of 1st preference: |
1-Hard High Energy QCD and
Structure Functions |
| Session of 2nd preference: |
2-Soft Interactions, Hadronic
Structure and Diffraction |
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| Abstract |
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| We present
preliminary results of a study of correlations in
rapidity between pairs of identified charged pions,
kaons and protons in the SLD data. Details of
short-range charge correlations between all combinations
of these hadron species are used to test the locality of
quantum number conservation in various hadronization
models. Long-range correlations in light-flavor (u-ubar,
d-dbar, s-sbar) events provide similarly stringent tests
of the models' predictions for leading particle
production. The SLC electron beam polarization is used
to tag the quark hemisphere in each event, allowing the
first study of rapidities signed relative to the quark
(vs. antiquark) direction. Distributions of ordered,
signed rapidity differences provide new probes of the
fragmentation process, including the first direct
observation of baryon number ordering along the
q->qbar axis, and several new model tests. |
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