Author/Authors :
ALEPH Collaboration، نويسنده , , D. Buskulic، نويسنده , , D. Casper، نويسنده , , I. De Bonis، نويسنده , , D. Decamp، نويسنده , , P. Ghez، نويسنده , , C. Goy، نويسنده , , J.-P. Lees، نويسنده , , A. Lucotte، نويسنده , , M.-N. Minard، نويسنده , , P. Odier، نويسنده , , B. Pietrzyk، نويسنده , , M. Chmeissani، نويسنده , , J.M. Crespo، نويسنده , , I. Efthymiopoulos، نويسنده , , E. Fernandez، نويسنده , , M. Fernandez-Bosman، نويسنده , , Ll. Garrido، نويسنده , , A. Juste، نويسنده , , M. Martinez، نويسنده , , et al.، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
Quark and gluon jets with the same energy, 24 GeV, are compared in symmetric three-jet configurations from hadronic Z decays observed by the ALEPH detector. Jets are defined using the Durham algorithm. Gluon jets are identified using an anti-tag on b jets, based on a track impact parameter method. The comparison of gluon and mixed flavour quark jets shows that gluon jets have a softer fragmentation function, a larger angular width and a higher particle multiplicity, Evidence is presented which shows that the corresponding differences between gluon and b jets are significantly smaller. In a statistically limited comparison the multiplicity in c jets was found to be comparable with that observed for the jets of mixed quark flavour.
