Professor Brian Foster OBE, FRS

Abstract:

A fine energy scan has been performed to search for narrow states in e+e- annihilation at c.m. energies between 29.90 and 31.46 GeV. No such state has been observed. The 90% confidence upper limit on the leptonic decay width times the hadronic decay branching ratio is ΓeeBh<1.6 keV. © 1979.

Abstract:

Hadron jets produced in e+e- annihilation between 13 GeV and 31.6 GeV in c.m. at PETRA are analyzed. The transverse momentum of the jets is found to increase strongly with c.m. energy. The broadening of the jets is not uniform in azimuthal angle around the quark direction but tends to yield planar events with large and growing transverse momenta in the plane and smaller transverse momenta normal to the plane. The simple qq collinear jet picture is ruled out. The observation of planar events shows that there are three basic particles in the final state. Indeed, several events with three well-separated jets of hadrons are observed at the highest energies. This occurs naturally when the outgoing quark radiates a hard noncollinear gluon, i.e., e+e- → qqg with the quarks and the gluons fragmenting into hadrons with limited transverse momenta. © 1979.

Abstract:

We analyse the recent data on backward axial vector meson production which come predominantly from a large K-p bubble chamber experiment at 4.2 GeV/c. In an attempt to understand the production mechanisms, we study the isospin and SU(3) structure of A1, B, D(1285) and C(1280) production and compare this with the corresponding production of pseudoscalar, vector and tensor mesons in the backward direction. The isospin and SU(3) study shows that octet exchange is dominant but there are indications that other exchanges, lower-lying than the nucleon (Nα) trajectory, must also be important. We show that a consistent description of backward resonance production is possible, but further experiments are required to confirm this. © 1979.

Abstract:

A new determination of the QA-QB mixing angle and of the antisymmetric coupling for the vector-pseudoscalar decay of the axial vector mesons is presented. This uses information from the decay rates of the A1 and C mesons found in the study of baryon exchange processes in K-p interactions at 4.2 GeV/c combined with the decay rate B → ωπ. The consistency between the results obtained from backward produced A1 and C and diffractively produced Q1 and Q2 is discussed. © 1979.

Abstract:

We have observed e⁺e^- hadrons at C.M. energies of 13 GeV and 17 GeV at PETRA using the TASSO detector. We find R(13 GeV) = 5.6 ± 0.7 and R(17 GeV) = 4.0 ± 0.7. The additional systematic uncertainty is 20%. Comparing inclusive charged hadron spectra we observe scaling between 5 GeV and 17 GeV for x = p/pbeam > 0.2; however the 13 GeV cross section is above the 17 GeV cross section for smaller x. This may be due to copious bb̄ production. The events become increasingly jet like at high energies as evidenced by a shrinking sphericity distribution with increasing energy. © 1979.