Two-component picture of e+e- inclusive processes

From the hypothesis that the characteristics of hadronic production in e+e- are those seen in transverse distributions of hadron-hadron collisions the authors are led to consider the inclusive distributions in e+e- annihilation as composed of two contributions, a cluster component which contains the e+e- resonances and a parton component. The decay of the cluster is described by the same production radii as those observed in hadron-hadron collisions. The parton component obeys asymptotically Bjorken scaling and the approach to scaling is set by a mass of 1.2 GeV. Within this picture a simple explanation is given of the energy dependence of the average charged energy and the multiplicity. (Auth.)