Evidence for a spin-1 gluon in three-jet events
Physics Letters B 97:3-4 (1980) 453-458
Authors:
R Brandelik, W Braunschweig, K Gather, V Kadansky, FJ Kirschfink, K Lübelsmeyer, HU Martyn, G Peise, J Rimkus, HG Sander, D Schmitz, AS von Dratzig, D Trines, W Wallraff, H Boerner, HM Fischer, H Hartmann, E Hilger, W Hillen, G Knop, L Koepke, H Kolanoski, P Leu, B Löhr, R Wedemeyer, N Wermes, M Wollstadt, H Burkhardt, DG Cassel, D Heyland, H Hultschig, P Joos, W Koch, P Koehler, U Kötz, H Kowalski, A Ladage, D Lüke, HL Lynch, P Mättig, G Mikenberg, D Notz, J Pyrlik, R Riethmüller, M Schliwa, P Söding, BH Wiik, G Wolf, R Fohrmann, M Holder, G Poelz, O Römer, R Rüsch, P Schmüser, I Al-Agil, DM Binnie, PJ Dornan, MA Downie, DA Garbutt, WG Jones, SL Lloyd, D Pandoulas, J Sedgbeer, RA Stern, S Yarker, C Youngman, RJ Barlow, IC Brock, RJ Cashmore, R Devenish, P Grossmann, J Illingworth, M Ogg, B Roe, GL Salmon, TR Wyatt, KW Bell, B Foster, JC Hart, J Proudfoot, DR Quarrie, DH Saxon, PL Woodworth, E Duchovni, Y Eisenberg, U Karshon, D Revel, E Ronat, A Shapira, T Barklow, J Freeman, P Lecomte, T Meyer, G Rudolph, E Wicklund, SL Wu, G Zobernig
Abstract:
High-energy e+e--annihilation events obtained in the TASSO detector at PETRA have been used to determine the spin of the gluon in the reaction e+e- → qqg. We analysed angular correlations between the three jet axes. While vector gluons are consistent with the data (55% confidence limit), scalar gluons are disfavoured by 3.8 standard deviations, corresponding to a confidence level of about 10-4. Our conclusion is free of possible biases due to uncertainties in the fragmentation process or in determining the qqg kinematics from the observed hadrons. © 1980.