Recent Tests of QCD at SLD

Details Recent Tests of QCD at SLD Recent Tests of QCD at SLD

1999-09-27

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/9909049v1

Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.86:7-16,2000

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

20 pages, 12 figs.; talk given at the QCD99 meeting, Montpellier, France, 7-13 July, 1999; a smaller-print version will appear

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0920-5632(00)00533-8

We present selected results on strong interaction physics from the SLD experiment at the SLAC Linear Collider. We report on several new studies of 3- and 4-jet hadronic Z decays, in which jets are identified as quark, antiquark or gluon. The 3-jet Z^0->b\bar{b}g rate is sensitive to the b-quark mass; prospects for measuring m_b are discussed. The gluon energy spectrum is measured over the full kinematic range, providing an improved test of QCD and limits on anomalous bbg couplings. The parity violation in Z^0->b\bar{b}g decays is consistent with electroweak theory plus QCD. New tests of T- and CP-conservation at the bbg vertex are performed. A new measurement of the rate of gluon splitting into b\bar{b} pairs yields g_{b\bar{b}}=0.0031+-0.0007(stat.)+-0.0006(syst.) (Preliminary). We also present a number of new results on jet fragmentation into identified hadrons. The B hadron energy spectrum is measured over the full kinematic range using a new, inclusive technique, allowing stringent tests of predictions for its shape and a precise measurement of =0.714+-0.005(stat.)+-0.007(syst.) (Preliminary). A detailed study of correlations in rapidity y between pairs of identified pions, kaons and protons confirms that strangeness and baryon number are conserved locally, and shows local charge conservation between meson-baryon and strange-nonstrange pairs. Flavor-dependent long-range correlations are observed for all combinations of these hadron species, yielding new information on leading particle production. The first study of correlations using rapidities signed such that y>0 corresponds to the quark direction provides additional new insights into fragmentation, including the first direct observation of baryon number ordering along the q\bar{q} axis.

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