Gösta Gustafson
Professor
Color separate singlets in e+ e- annihilation
Author
Summary, in English
We use the method of a color effective Hamiltonian to study the properties of states in which a gluonic subsystem forms a color singlet, and we will study the possibility that such a subsystem hadronizes as a separate unit. A parton system can normally be subdivided into singlet subsystems in many different ways, and one problem arises from the fact that the corresponding states are not orthogonal. We show that if only contributions of order 1/Nc2 are included, the problem is greatly simplified. Only a very limited number of states are possible, and we present an orthogonalization procedure for these states. The result is simple and intuitive and could give an estimate of the possibility to produce color separated gluonic subsystems, if no dynamical effects are important. We also study with a simple Monte Carlo program the possibility that configurations which correspond to "short strings" are dynamically favored. The advantage of our approach over more elaborate models is its simplicity, which makes it easier to estimate color reconnection effects in reactions which are more complicated than the relatively simple e+e- annihilation.
Department/s
- Theoretical Particle Physics - Has been reorganised
Publishing year
2000
Language
English
Publication/Series
Physical review D: Particles and fields
Volume
62
Issue
5
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
American Physical Society
Topic
- Other Physics Topics
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1550-2368