Eur. Phys. J. C (2007) 50: 21-27
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0197-z

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Hadron multiplicities in e⁺e^- annihilation with heavy primary quarks

Institute for High Energy Physics, 142281, Protvino, Russia

^* e-mail: alexandre.kisselev@mail.ihep.ru

Received: 25 October 2006
Accepted: 22 November 2006
Published online: 24 January 2007

Abstract

The multiple hadron production in the events induced by the heavy primary quarks in e⁺e^- annihilation is reconsidered with account of corrected experimental data. A new value for the multiplicity in bb̄ events is presented on the basis of pQCD estimates.