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Identified Hadron Production and Light Quark Fragmentation in Z0 Decays

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We have measured the differential cross sections for the production of π+\pi^{+}, K+K^{+}, K0K^{0}, K0K^{*0}, ϕ\phi, p, Λ\Lambda and their corresponding antiparticles in separate samples of flavor-tagged Z0Z^{0}\to light-flavor (uuˉu\bar{u}, ddˉd\bar{d}, or ssˉs\bar{s}), Z0ccˉZ^{0}\to c\bar{c} and Z0bbˉZ^{0}\to b\bar{b} events. Clear flavor dependences are observed, and the results are compared with the predictions of three fragmentation models. We have also performed a direct measurement of AsA_{s}, the parity-violating coupling of the Z0Z^{0} to strange quarks, by measuring the left-right-forward-backward production asymmetry in polar angle of the tagged ss quark. Our preliminary result is AsA_{s} = 0.82±0.10(stat.)±0.07(syst.)0.82\pm 0.10(stat.)\pm 0.07(syst.).

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/9810034,
  title  = {Identified Hadron Production and Light Quark Fragmentation in Z0 Decays},
  author = {M. Kalelkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/9810034},
  year   = {2008}
}

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11 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Proceedings of QCD98 Euroconference, Montpellier, France