A measurement of the angular correlations between beauty and anti-beauty hadrons (B B-bar) produced in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV at the CERN LHC is presented, probing for the first time the region of small angular separation. The B hadrons are identified by the presence of displaced secondary vertices from their decays. The B hadron angular separation is reconstructed from the decay vertices and the primary-interaction vertex. The differential B B-bar production cross section, measured from a data sample collected by CMS and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.1 inverse picobarns, shows that a sizable fraction of the B B-bar pairs are produced with small opening angles. These studies provide a test of QCD and further insight into the dynamics of b b-bar production.
Cross section as a function of DELTA(R) for leading jet transverse momentum > 56 GeV. . The (sys) error in the table is due to the limited MC statistics and is uncorrelated bin-to-bin. The other two systematic errors are correlated.
Cross section as a function of DELTA(R) for leading jet transverse momentum > 84 GeV. . The (sys) error in the table is due to the limited MC statistics and is uncorrelated bin-to-bin. The other two systematic errors are correlated.
Cross section as a function of DELTA(R) for leading jet transverse momentum > 120 GeV. . The (sys) error in the table is due to the limited MC statistics and is uncorrelated bin-to-bin. The other two systematic errors are correlated. Note that these two systematic errors are different for the final point.
Bose-Einstein correlations between identical particles are measured in samples of proton-proton collisions at 0.9 and 7 TeV centre-of-mass energies, recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The signal is observed in the form of an enhancement of number of pairs of same-sign charged particles with small relative momentum. The dependence of this enhancement on kinematic and topological features of the event is studied.
The double ratio R_double at 900 and 7000 GeV.
The double ratio R_double at 7000 GeV in different bins of charged particle multiplicity and kT.
The double ratio R_double at 7000 GeV in different bins of charged particle multiplicity and kT.
The process of charm quark fragmentation is studied using $D^{*\pm}$ meson production in deep-inelastic scattering as measured by the H1 detector at HERA. Two different regions of phase space are investigated defined by the presence or absence of a jet containing the $D^{*\pm}$ meson in the event. The parameters of fragmentation functions are extracted for QCD models based on leading order matrix elements and DGLAP or CCFM evolution of partons together with string fragmentation and particle decays. Additionally, they are determined for a next-to-leading order QCD calculation in the fixed flavour number scheme using the independent fragmentation of charm quarks to $D^{*\pm}$ mesons.
Normalised D*+- cross section as a function of zJet for the D*+- jet sample.
Normalised D*+- cross section as a function of zHem for the D*+- jet sample.
Normalised D*+- cross section, corrected to the parton level, as a function of zJet for the D*+- jet sample.
Deep-inelastic ep scattering data taken with the H1 detector at HERA and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 106 pb^{-1} are used to study the differential distributions of event shape variables. These include thrust, jet broadening, jet mass and the C-parameter. The four-momentum transfer Q is taken to be the relevant energy scale and ranges between 14 GeV and 200 GeV. The event shape distributions are compared with perturbative QCD predictions, which include resummed contributions and analytical power law corrections, the latter accounting for non-perturbative hadronisation effects. The data clearly exhibit the running of the strong coupling alpha_s(Q) and are consistent with a universal power correction parameter alpha_0 for all event shape variables. A combined QCD fit using all event shape variables yields alpha_s(mZ) = 0.1198 \pm 0.0013 ^{+0.0056}_{-0.0043} and alpha_0 = 0.476 \pm 0.008 ^{+0.018} _{-0.059}.
Normalised distribution of (1-THRUST) where THRUST is w.r.t the axis which maximises the sum of the longitudinal momenta in the current hemisphere, for Q = 14.0 to 16.0 GeV and X = 0.00841 .
Normalised distribution of (1-THRUST) where THRUST is w.r.t the axis which maximises the sum of the longitudinal momenta in the current hemisphere, for Q = 16.0 to 20.0 GeV and X = 0.01180 .
Normalised distribution of (1-THRUST) where THRUST is w.r.t the axis which maximises the sum of the longitudinal momenta in the current hemisphere, for Q = 20.0 to 30.0 GeV and X = 0.02090 .
Hadronic events obtained with the CELLO detector at PETRA are compared with second order QCD predictions using different models for the fragmentation of quarks and gluons into hadrons. We find that the model dependence in the determination of the strong coupling constant persists when going from first to second order QCD calculations.
ASYMMETRY FOR DATA CORRECTED WITH IF MODEL (ALPHA-S=0.12).
ASSYMETRY FOR DATA CORRECTED WITH SF MODEL (ALPHA-S=0.19).
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Hadronic events obtained with the CELLO detector at PETRA were compared with first-order QCD predictions using two different models for the fragmentation of quarks and gluons, the Hoyer model and the Lund model. Both models are in reasonable agreement with the data, although they do not completely reproduce the details of many distributions. Several methods have been applied to determine the strong coupling constant α S . Although within one model the value of α S varies by 20% among the different methods, the values determined using the Lund model are 30% or more larger (depending on the method used) than the values determined with the Hoyer model. Our results using the Hoyer model are in agreement with previous results based on this approach.
DATA CORRECTED WITH HOYER MODEL (ALPHA-S=0.15).
DATA CORRECTED WITH LUND MODEL (ALPHA-S=0.25).
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Measurements of energy weighted angular correlations in electron positron annihilations at c.m. energies of 22 GeV and 34 GeV are presented.
ENERGY-ENERGY CORRELATIONS FOR FINAL STATE PARTICLES.
ENERGY-ENERGY CORRELATIONS FOR PRIMORDIAL HADRONS.
ASSYMETRY IN ENERGY CORRELATIONS FOR FINAL STATE PARTICLES.
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