Eur. Phys. J. C 28, 313-319 (2003)
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s2003-01175-7

Angular distribution of particle flows and perturbative QCD predictions

M.A. Buican¹, V.A. Khoze² and W. Ochs<sup>1

1</sup>  Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, 80805 München, Germany
²  Department of Physics and Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK

(Received: 16 December 2002 / Revised version: 12 February 2003 / Published online: 24 March 2003)

Abstract
We discuss the predictions of perturbative QCD for angular flows of final state particles in two and three jet events including their cms energy and jet resolution ( y_cut) dependence. The simple analytical formulae for gluon bremsstrahlung from primary partons, modified for gluon cascading, reproduce the main features of the experimental data well. For y_cut-selected events, the particle flow is derived from a superposition of colour dipoles in much the same way that photon radiation is derived from electric dipoles.

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