We correct an important misprint in the journal version of our earlier work on New Jet Cluster Algorithms: Next-to-leading Order QCD..., published in Nucl. Phys. B 370 (1992) 310, which may have lead to an incorrect parametrisation of the leading order QCD coefficients for the JADE type jet cluster algorithms.
We examine the processes $e^+ e^-longrightarrow W^+ W^-$ and $Z^0 Z^0$ in the context of the $SP(6)_Lotimes U(1)_Y$ model. We find that there are significant deviations in the total cross sections $sigma (s)$ from the standard model results due to the presence of additional gauge bosons $Z^prime$ and $W^prime$ in the model. These deviations could be detected at LEP.
We study, at leading order in the large number of colours expansion and within the Resonance Chiral Theory framework, the odd-intrinsic-parity $e^+ e^- rightarrow pi^+ pi^- (pi^0, eta)$ cross-sections in the energy regime populated by hadron resonances, namely $3 , m_{pi} lsim E lsim 2 , mbox{GeV}$. In addition we implement our results in the Monte Carlo generator PHOKHARA 7.0 and we simulate hadron production through the radiative return method.
We propose to measure the decay asymmetry parameters in the hadronic weak decays of singly charmed baryons, such as $ldctoldpi^+,Sigma^0pi^+,p bar K_0$, $Xi_c^0toXi^-pi^+$ and $Omega_c^0toOmega^-pi^+$. The joint angular formulae for these processes are presented, and are used to extract the asymmetry parameters in $ee$ annihilation data. Base on the current $ldc$ data set collected at BESIII, we estimate the experimental sensitivities to measure the parameters $alpha_{ldpi^+}$ for $ldctoldpi^+$, $alpha_{Sigma^+pi^0}$ for $ldctoSigma^+pi^0$ and $alpha_{usigpi^+}$ for $ldctousigpi^+$.
We point out that the fragmentation of a strange quark into nucleons versus antinucleons is not necessarily identical $D_{p/s}(z,Q^2) eq D_{bar p/s}(z,Q^2)$, even though the perturbative contributions from gluon splitting and evolution are $p leftrightarrow bar p$ symmetric. The observation of such asymmetries in the hadronization of strange and other heavy quarks can provide insight into the nonperturbative mechanisms underlying jet fragmentation in QCD.
The usual interpretation of Bose-Einstein correlations (BEC) of identical boson pairs relates the width of the peak in the correlation function at small relative four-momentum to the spatial extent of the source of the bosons. However, in the tau-model, which successfully describes BEC in hadronic Z decay, the width of the peak is related to the temporal extent of boson emission. Some new checks on the validity of both the tau-model and the usual descriptions are presented.