Prompt Electron Production From Delco at {PEP}

The DELCO collaboration Pal, T. ; Atwood, W.B. ; Barish, B.C. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.D 33 (1986) 2708, 1986.
Inspire Record 226886 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.23516

We report final results on prompt electron production in hadronic events from e+e− annihilations at √s =29 GeV, obtained with the DELCO detector at the SLAC storage ring PEP. We find the semielectronic branching ratios of charm and bottom quarks to be B(c→se+νe)=(11.6−0.9 +1.1)% and B(b→ce−ν¯e)=(14.9−1.9 +2.2)% respectively. These results, from the complete data set, are consistent with an earlier analysis of partial data and indicate hard fragmentation functions for both c and b quarks, with mean values 〈zc〉=0.59±0.04 and 〈zb〉=0.72±0.05. The errors indicated here are a combination of statistical and systematic uncertainties.

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Axis error includes +- 0.0/0.0 contribution (NOT GIVEN).

Axis error includes +- 0.0/0.0 contribution (NOT GIVEN).

Axis error includes +- 0.0/0.0 contribution (NOT GIVEN).

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