120017490
QCD studies of hadronic decays of Z0 bosons by SLD
Z0 bosons have been produced by collisions of longitudinally polarized electrons with unpolarized positrons at the SLAC Linear Collider and their decays have been recorded by the SLD experiment. We present preliminary QCD results based on the first 6000 such decays. We find good agreement between the inclusive properties of these data and the predictions of perturbative QCD plus fragmentation models. The strong coupling, αs, has been measured by three methods: jet rates yield αs(MZ)=0.119±0.002(stat.)±0.003(exp. syst.)±0.014(theor.); energy‐energy correlations yield αs(MZ)=0.121±0.002±0.004±0.0160.009; and the energy‐energy correlation asymmetry gives αs(MZ)=0.108±0.003±0.005±0.0080.003.
10514085
Fragmentation and Hadronization in e+e- Collisions
We present a number of jet fragmentation and hadronization measurements in e{sup +}e{sup -} {yields} Z{sup 0} {yields} hadrons. The L3 collaboration has searched for pointlike color singlet radiation in multi-jet events, limiting any such contribution to rapidity gap events at the few percent level. ALEPH and SLD have measured production rates of a number of identified hadrons, including precise, full-coverage spectra of B hadrons. L3 and SLD have studied charged track and identified hadron production in heavy- and light-flavor events. OPAL has made a pioneering comparison of charged multiplicities between events of the three light flavors, u{bar u}, d{bar d} and s{bar s}.
124860285
Review of c, b and τ Lifetimes from e+e- Experiments
The current status of lifetime measurements of heavy flavored particles by experiments at e + e - colliders and their implications for the standard model are reviewed. This includes the most recent measurents of lifetimes of the tau lepton, the D mesons and B hadrons. The emphasis is on B hadron lifetimes, since there are several new results contributed to this conference. The first use of the B lifetime to tag and study bƃ events is also discussed.
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THE DIRC COUNTER: A NEW TYPE OF PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION DEVICE FOR B FACTORIES*
A very thin, solid radiator, totally internally reflecting, imaging Cherenkov counter (DIRC) is described. This device is well matched to requirements at an asymmetric e+e- B Factory. the hadronic charged particle identification 1. INTR~IXJ~TI~N Particle identification at a B factory is difficult, and highly constrained by the machine environment and the need for good energy measurement of soft photons in the calorimeter which surrounds the particle identification device [l]. Because of the high beam crossing rate and the potential for large backgrounds, the particle identification detector must be robust and relatively fast. Good r~‘dK separation is required over a wide momentum range between about 0.25 and 4 GeV/c. Most detectors measure dE/dx in the tracking chamber which allows good X/K separation up to about 600 MeV/c, but a specific identification device is required over most of the momentum region [2]. The amount of material in the device should be small (preferably less than 10% LRAD) and should be distributed as close as possible to the calorimeter in order to avoid degradation in the resolution performance of the calorimeter, and the loss of low energy conversion electrons in the magnetic field. In addition, the cost of the high quality calorimeter scales roughly like the radius squared and there will be substantial cost savings if the particle identification device can be made thin.
119495652
Casimir energy in a small volume multiply connected static hyperbolic preinflationary universe
A few years ago, Cornish, Spergel and Starkman (CSS) suggested that a multiply connected ''small'' universe could allow for classical chaotic mixing as a preinflationary homogenization process. The smaller the volume, the more important the process. Also, a smaller universe has a greater probability of being spontaneously created. Previously DeWitt, Hart and Isham (DHI) calculated the Casimir energy for static multiply connected flat space-times. Because of the interest in small volume hyperbolic universes (e.g., CSS), we generalize the DHI calculation by making a numerical investigation of the Casimir energy for a conformally coupled, massive scalar field in a static universe, whose spatial sections are the Weeks manifold, the smallest universe of negative curvature known. In spite of being a numerical calculation, our result is in fact exact. It is shown that there is spontaneous vacuum excitation of low multipolar components.
119377344
Casimir Effect in Compact Universes
The Casimir effect in compact hyperbolic Universes was numerically obtained in previous publications. In this talk, I expose these results.
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Casimir energy density in closed hyperbolic universes
The original Casimir effect results from the difference in the vacuum energies of the electromagnetic field, between that in a region of space with boundary conditions and that in the same region without boundary conditions. In this paper we develop the theory of a similar situation, involving a scalar field in spacetimes with closed spatial sections of negative curvature.
119193340
The concept of phenomenological light-front wave functions -- Regge improved diquark model predictions
We introduce a classification scheme for parton distribution models and we model generalized parton distributions (GPDs), their form factors, and parton distribution functions (PDFs), integrated and unintegrated ones, in terms of unintegrated double distributions that are obtained from the parton number conserved overlap of effective light-front wave functions. For a so-called "spherical" model we present general expressions for all twist-two related non-perturbative quantities in terms of one effective light-front wave function, including chiral-odd GPDs. We also discuss the Regge improvement of such quark models from the $s$-channel point of view and study the relations between zero-skewness GPDs and unintegrated PDFs on a more general ground. Finally, we provide a few phenomenological applications that emphasize the role of orbital angular momenta.
119420912
Casimir energy in multiply connected static hyperbolic universes
We generalize a previously obtained result for the case of a few other static hyperbolic universes with manifolds of nontrivial topology as spatial sections.