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gösta gustafson

Gösta Gustafson

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gösta gustafson

A semiclassical model for quark jet fragmentation

Author

  • B. Andersson
  • G. Gustafson
  • C. Peterson

Summary, in English

A semiclassical model is presented for the way the energy of a fast quark is transformed into observable hadrons. It reproduces the features of 1+1 dimensional QED (the Schwinger model) concerning a flat rapidity distribution in the central region. It also reproduces results from phenomenological considerations, which, based upon scaling, predict that meson formation in the fragmentation region can be described by an iterative scheme, implying a set of coupled integral equations. In particular the model predicts that the probability to find a meson containing the leading quark is independent of the Feynman scaling variable z. The iterative structure corresponds to a Brownian motion with relevance both to the confinement problems and to the distribution of mass in the quark jet.

Department/s

  • Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics - Has been reorganised

Publishing year

1979-01-01

Language

English

Pages

105-116

Publication/Series

Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

Volume

1

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0170-9739