Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2001-01-10
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
6 pages, LaTeX, to appear in the proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, October 9 - 15, 20
Scientific paper
Three recent OPAL studies are presented in which the fragmentation process in quark and gluon jets and in identified up, down and strange flavour jets is studied. The first is a measurement of charged particle, pi0, eta and K0 multiplicities in quark and gluon jets. No evidence is found for a particle-species dependent multiplicity enhancement in gluon jets. In another study leading pion, kaon, K0, proton and lambda rates have been measured in up, down and strange flavour jets. The results confirm the leading particle effect in the fragmentation of light flavour jets. In addition, a direct determination of the strangeness suppression factor has been performed, yielding gamma_s=0.422 +/- 0.049(stat.) +/- 0.059(syst.). In a third study, mean charged particle multiplicities were measured for up, down and strange flavoured Z0 decays and found to be identical within the uncertainties of the measurement, as expected from the flavour independence of the strong interaction.
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