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Hadronization

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-02-03 v2

Abstract

Hadronization corrections to the predictions of perturbative QCD are reviewed. The existing models for the conversion of quarks and gluons into hadrons are summarized. The most successful models give a good description of the data on e+ee^+e^- event shapes and jet fragmentation functions, and suggest that the dominant hadronization effects have a 1/Q1/Q dependence on the hard process energy scale QQ. In several cases the 1/Q1/Q terms can be understood in terms of a simple longitudinal phase-space model. They can also be inferred by relating non-perturbative renormalon effects to the infrared cutoff dependence of perturbative contributions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9411384,
  title  = {Hadronization},
  author = {Bryan Webber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9411384},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

Lectures at Summer School on Hadronic Aspects of Collider Physics, Zuoz, Switzerland, August 1994; 29 pages latex, 12 figures uuencoded postscript. Citation of relevant work by I.I.Balitsky and V.M.Braun, Nucl. Phys. B361(1991)93, added 30 Nov 1994