Peter Renton

Abstract:

The data collected by DELPHI in 1996 have been used to measure the average charged particle multiplicities and dispersions in qq̄ events at centre-of-mass energies of √s = 161 GeV and √s = 172 GeV, and the average charge multiplicity in WW events at √s = 172 GeV. The multiplicities in qq̄ events are consistent with the evolution predicted by QCD. The dispersions in the multiplicity distributions are consistent with Koba-Nielsen-Olesen (KNO) scaling. The average multiplicity of charged particles in hadronic W decays has been measured for the first time; its value, 19.23 ± 0.74(stat + syst), is consistent with that expected for an e+e- interaction at a centre-of-mass energy equal to the W mass. The charged particle multiplicity in W decays shows no evidence of effects of colour reconnection between partons from different W's at the present level of statistics. © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.

Abstract:

The splitting processes in identified quark and gluon jets are investigated using longitudinal and transverse observables. The jets are selected from symmetric three-jet events measured in Z decays with the DELPHI detector in 1991-1994. Gluon jets are identified using heavy quark anti-tagging. Scaling violations in identified gluon jets are observed for the first time. The scale energy dependence of the gluon fragmentation function is found to be about two times larger than for the corresponding quark jets, consistent with the QCD expectation CA/CF. The primary splitting of gluons and quarks into subjets agrees with fragmentation models and, for specific regions of the jet resolution y, with NLLA calculations. The maximum of the ratio of the primary subjet splittings in quark and gluon jets is 2.77 ± 0.11 ± 0.10. Due to non-perturbative effects, the data are below the expectation at small y. The transition from the perturbative to the non-perturbative domain appears at smaller y for quark jets than for gluon jets. Combined with the observed behaviour of the higher rank splittings, this explains the relatively small multiplicity ratio between gluon and quark jets.

Abstract:

From a data sample of 9.98 pb-1 integrated luminosity, collected by DELPHI at a centre-of-mass energy of 172 GeV, 118 events were selected as W-pair candidates. From these, the branching fraction Br(W → qq̄) was measured to be 0.660+0.036-0.037 (stat.) ± 0.009(syst.) and the cross-section for the doubly resonant process e+e- → W+W- to be 11.58+1.44-1.35 (stat.) ± 0.32(syst.) pb. The mass of the W boson, obtained from direct reconstruction of the invariant mass of the fermion pairs in the decays WW → ℓvqq̄ and WW → qq̄qq̄, was determined to be mW = 80.22±0.41(stat.)±0.04(syst.)±0.05(int.)±0.03(LEP) GeV/c2, where "int." denotes the uncertainty from interconnection effects like colour reconnection and Bose-Einstein interference. Combined with the W mass obtained from the cross-sections measured by DELPHI at threshold, a value of mW = 80.33 ± 0.30(stat.) ± 0.05(syst.) ± 0.03(int.) ± 0.03(LEP) GeV/c2 was found.

Abstract:

In an analysis of multihadronic events recorded at LEP by DELPHI in the years 1992 through 1994, rapidity correlations of A-A, proton-proton, and A-proton pairs are compared with each other and with the predictions of the string fragmentation model. For Ap̄ pairs, the additional correlation with respect to charged kaons is also analysed. © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.

Abstract:

An update of the searches for charginos and neutralinos in DELPHI is presented, based mainly on recent data collected at centre-of-mass energies of 161 GeV and 172 GeV. No signal is found. For a sneutrino with mass above 300 GeV/c2 and a mass difference between the chargino and the lightest neutralino above 10 GeV/c2, the lower limit at 95% confidence level on the chargino mass ranges from 84.3 GeV/c2 to the kinematical limit (86.0 GeV/c2), depending on the mixing parameters. The limit decreases for lower chargino-neutralino mass differences. The limit in the case of a light sneutrino is 67.6 GeV/c2, provided that that there is no light sneutrino with a mass within 10 GeV/c2 below the chargino mass. Upper limits on neutralino pair production cross-sections of about a picobarn are derived. The (μ, M2) domain excluded in the MSSM-GUT scenario is determined by combining the neutralino and chargino searches. These results imply a limit on the mass of the lightest neutralino which, for a heavy sneutrino, is constrained to be above 24.9 GeV/c2 for tanβ ≥ 1. The search has also been extended to the case where the lightest neutralino is unstable and decays into a photon and a gravitino.