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Particles and Fields
Eur. Phys. J. C 8, 435-445
DOI 10.1007/s100529901091

Using two-jet events to understand hadronization

P. Edén - G. Gustafson

Department of Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Helgonav. 5, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden

Received: 21 November 1998 / Published online: 11 March 1999

Abstract
While the hard phase of the strong interaction is well described by perturbative QCD, the soft hadronization phase is less understood. Benefiting from the high statistics from e+e- experiments at the ${\mathrm Z}^0$ resonance, it is possible to impose strong two-jet cuts on the data without losing the statistical significance. In these events perturbative activity is suppressed and hadronization effects can be more prominent. We show that after proper event cuts a set of observables are sensitive to differences in the hadronization models. These observables can thus be important tools for a more detailed study of the hadronization mechanism.

Author for correspondance: gosta@thep.lu.se, patrik@thep.lu.se


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