Fragmentation and Hadronization
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Hadronic jets are amongst the most striking phenomena in high-energy physics, and their importance is sure to persist as searching for new physics at hadron colliders becomes the main activity in our field. Signatures involving jets almost always have the largest cross sections but are the most difficult to interpret and to distinguish from background. Insight into the properties of jets is therefore doubly valuable: both as a test of our understanding of strong interaction dynamics and as a tool for extracting new physics signals in multi-jet channels. In the present talk I shall concentrate on jet fragmentation and hadronization, the topic of jet production having been covered admirably elsewhere [1, 2]. The terms fragmentation and hadronization are often used interchangeably, but I shall interpret the former strictly as referring to inclusive hadron spectra, for which factorization ‘theorems’ are available. These allow predictions to be made without any detailed assumptions concerning hadron formation. A brief review of the relevant theory is given in sect. 2. Hadronization, on the other hand, will be taken here to refer specifically to the mechanism by which quarks and gluons produced in hard processes form the hadrons that are observed in the final state. This is an intrinsically non-perturbative process, for which we only have models at present. The main models are reviewed in sect. 3. In sect. 4 their predictions, together with other less model-dependent expectations, are compared with the latest data on single-particle yields and spectra. One of the most important objectives of jet studies is to understand the differences between jets initiated by different types of partons, especially quarks versus gluons,
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تاریخ انتشار 1999