Strangeness as a charm probe in heavy jets

A question of interest for operation at ISABELLE is the development of a signature for the heavy quarks b and, optimistically, t. One approach, exemplified by the MIT (Ting) proposal, is to concentrate on the leptonic modes, particularly the muonic modes. Another approach is to try to disentangle the hadronic decay products in a jet originated by such quarks. One is encouraged in jet studies by experimental results from PETRA which show not only visible jet structure in some individual events but also success in analyzing entire event samples within a jet framework. In addition, the detailed phenomenological work of Babcoch and Cutkosky indicates that many properties of interest in a jet can be inferred from leading particle properties. This is encouraging, since the leading particles may be fairly easily assigned to the proper jet, whereas there may be considerable confusion for lower momentum particles. Using the ISAJET event generating program, I have investigated the role of strangeness identification as a handle on t, b recognition