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Anomalous 3-jet and Heavy Quark Fragmentation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Heavy hadron production in e+ee^+e^- annihilation is studied in the framework of heavy-quark recombination mechanism. This mechanism predicts a new type of 3-jet event such as bbˉqb\bar{b}q or bbˉqˉb\bar{b}\bar{q}, which is power-suppressed relative to the standard bbˉgb\bar{b}g event. Furthermore, heavy quark fragmentation function also receives a contribution from this mechanism, which is {\it calculable} in perturbative QCD as long as the momentum fraction zz is not too close to unity. We conjecture that the height of the peak of fragmentation function for S-wave heavy hadron scales as αs2(m)m/\lambdaqcd\alpha_s^2(m) m/\lambdaqcd.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0305172,
  title  = {Anomalous 3-jet and Heavy Quark Fragmentation},
  author = {Yu Jia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0305172},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure