Guy Wilkinson

Abstract:

Rare decays of beauty particles were studied in several charmless modes using the data collected with the DELPHI detector at LEP from t991 to 1994. These decays are mediated by both tree level b → u and one-loop penguin b → s, d transitions. Evidence for charmless decays was obtained in two body hadronic modes. The branching ratios of 30a,s to π+π- or K+π- and B -u to p0π- or K*0π- were found to be (2.8+1.5-1.0 ± 0.2) × 10-5 and (1.7 +1.2-0.8 ± 0.2) × 10-4 respectively. The fraciion of these decays with a charged kaon in the final state that is not from the spectator s quark, was measured to be 0.58 ± 0.18. Upper limits were set at 90% confidence level on the branching ratios for three and four body charmless hadronic decays in the range of (1-3)x 10 -4, for inclusive radiative b → sγ decays at 5.4 × 10-4, for the exclusive radiative decays B0d → K+(892)0γ and B0d φ(1020)γ at 2.1 × 10-4 and 7.0 × 10 -4 respectively, and for dineutrino decays, B0s → svv̄, in the exclusive channels B0d → φ K*(892)0vv̄ and B0s → φ(1020)vv̄ at 1.0 × 10-3 and 5.4 × 10 -3 respectively The limits on dineutrino decays constrain theories with a new U(1) gauge boson coupling predominantly to the third family of fermions. © Springer-Verlag 1996.

Abstract:

Event shape and charged particle inclusive distributions are measured using 750000 decays of the Z to hadrons from the DELPHI detector at LEP. These precise data allow a decisive confrontation with models of the hadronization process. Improved tunings of the JETSET, ARIADNE and HERWIG parton shower models and the JETSET matrix element model are obtained by fitting the models to these DELPHI data as well as to identified particle distributions from all LEP experiments. The description of the data distributions by the models is critically reviewed with special importance attributed to identified particles.