Published February 1996 | Version v1
Journal article

QCD effects and b-tagging at LEP I

  • 1. Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Universita di Torino, and INFN, Sezione di Torino, V. Pietro Giuria 1, I-10125 Torino (Italy)
  • 2. Durham Univ. (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics
  • 3. Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet, Institut fuer Physik (THEP), Staudingerweg 7, D-55099 Mainz (Germany)

Description

We analyze the impact of using b-tagged samples in studying non-Abelian effects due to QCD in e+e-→4jet events at √s=MZ0, using angular variable analyses and comparisons with e+e-→3jetγ events. We find that QCD effects are largely enhanced in b-quark samples with respect to 'unflavoured' ones, where energy-ordering is used to distinguish between gluon and quark jets. We show that the b-quark mass influences the angular distributions significantly and should not be neglected. (orig.). With 11 figs., 2 tabs

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Journal Title
Zeitschrift fuer Physik. C, Particles and Fields
Journal Volume
69
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 635-646.
ISSN
0170-9739
CODEN
ZPCFD2