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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