2023 Impact factor 4.2
Particles and Fields
Eur. Phys. J. C 11, 345-350
DOI 10.1007/s100529900193

On particle multiplicities in three-jet events

P. Edén1 - G. Gustafson1 - V. Khoze2

1 Department of Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Helgonav. 5, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
2 INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, P.O. Box 13, 00044, Frascati (Roma), Italy

Received: 8 June 1999 / Published online: 14 October 1999

Abstract
A thorough verification of the distinct differences in the properties of quark and gluon jets is considered as one of the most instructive tests of the basic ideas of QCD. In the real life experiments such a comparison appears to be quite a delicate task and various subtle issues require further theoretical efforts. In this paper we discuss in detail the possibility to extract the theoretically adequate information from the particle multiplicity patterns in three-jet events in e+e- annihilation.


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