Light Quark Fragmentation in Polarized Z0 Decays at SLD

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dc.creatorKalelkar, M.
dc.date2000-08-18
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:01:32Z
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dc.descriptionWe report results on two physics topics from the SLD experiment at the SLAC Linear Collider, using our full sample of 550,000 events of the type e+e- --> Z0 --> q-q(bar). The electron beam was polarized, enabling the quark and antiquark hemispheres to be tagged in each event. One physics topic is the first study of rapidities signed such that positive rapidity is along the quark rather than antiquark direction. Distributions of ordered differences in signed rapidity between pairs of particles are analyzed, providing the first direct observation of baryon number ordering along the q-q(bar) axis. The other topic is the first direct measurement of A_s, the parity-violating coupling of the Z0 to strange quarks, by measuring the left-right forward-backward production asymmetry in polar angle of the tagged s-quark. We obtain A_s = 0.895 +- 0.066(stat.) +- 0.062(syst.), which is consistent with the Standard Model and is currently the most precise measurement of this quantity.
dc.description10 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the International Euroconference on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD 00), Montpellier, France
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0008032
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0008032
dc.identifierNucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.96:31-35,2001
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/S0920-5632(01)01103-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/207124
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Experiment
dc.titleLight Quark Fragmentation in Polarized Z0 Decays at SLD
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