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A Search for Jet Handedness in Hadronic $Z^0$ Decays

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2009-09-25 v2

Abstract

We have searched for signatures of polarization in hadronic jets from Z0qqˉZ^0 \to q \bar{q} decays using the ``jet handedness'' method. The polar angle asymmetry induced by the high SLC electron-beam polarization was used to separate quark jets from antiquark jets, expected to be left- and right-polarized, respectively. We find no evidence for jet handedness in our global sample or in a sample of light quark jets and we set upper limits at the 95% C.L. of 0.063 and 0.099 respectively on the magnitude of the analyzing power of the method proposed by Efremov {\it et al.}

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/9501006,
  title  = {A Search for Jet Handedness in Hadronic $Z^0$ Decays},
  author = {K. Abe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/9501006},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Revtex, 8 pages, 2 figures