Charged and Identified Particles in the Hadronic Decay of W Bosons and in e+e- -> q qbar from 130 to 200 GeV

The DELPHI collaboration Abreu, P. ; Adam, W. ; Adye, T. ; et al.
Eur.Phys.J.C 18 (2000) 203-228, 2000.
Inspire Record 526164 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.43294

Inclusive distributions of charged particles in hadronic W decays are experimentally investigated using the statistics collected by the DELPHI experiment at LEP during 1997, 1998 and 1999, at centre-of-mass energies from 183 to around 200 GeV. The possible effects of interconnection between the hadronic decays of two Ws are not observed. Measurements of the average multiplicity for charged and identified particles in q qbar and WW events at centre-of-mass energies from 130 to 200 GeV and in W decays are presented. The results on the average multiplicity of identified particles and on the position xi^* of the maximum of the xi_p = -log(2p/sqrt(s)) distribution are compared with predictions of JETSET and MLLA calculations.

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Corrected multiplicites and dispersions of charged particles produced in hadronic decays from QQBAR events. The 200 GeV results are a weighted average fromthe 192, 196 and 200 GeV data.

Average multiplicities of identified hadrons produced in hadronic decays from QQBAR events.

Corrected multiplicites and dispersions of charged particles produced in fully hadronic W decays from two W 4Q and 2Q events.

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