https://doi.org/10.1140/epjcd/s2004-03-1661-y
PS04 Hard QCD
First Measurement of the Double-inclusive
Hadron Energy Distribution in e+e– Annihilations, and of Angle-Dependent Moments of the B and
Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Rd., London E1 4NS, England
Received:
17
November
2003
Accepted:
20
January
2004
Published online:
13
February
2004
We have made the first measurement of the double-inclusive B/ energy distribution in e+e– annihilations, using a sample of 400,000 hadronic Z
0-decay events recorded in the SLD experiment at SLAC between 1996 and 1998. The small and stable SLC beam spot and the CCD-based vertex detector were used to reconstruct B/
-decay vertices with high efficiency and purity, and to provide precise measurements of the kinematic quantities used to calculate the B energies in this novel technique. We measured the B/
energies with good efficiency and resolution over the full kinematic range. We measured moments of the scaled energies of the B and
hadrons vs. the opening angle between them. By comparing these results with perturbative QCD predictions we tested the ansatz of factorisation in heavy-quark production. A recent next-to-leading order calculation reproduces the data.
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