Experimental evidence for the non-Abelian nature of QCD from a study of multijet events produced in e+e- annihilation

Authors

I. H. Park, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
S. Schnetzer, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
J. Green, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
S. Sakamoto, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
F. Sannes, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
R. Stone, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
S. Trentalange, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
J. Vinson, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
A. Bacala, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
R. Imlay, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
P. Kirk, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
J. Lim, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
R. R. McNeil, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
W. Metcalf, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
C. P. Cheng, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
J. Li, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Y. K. Li, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Z. P. Mao, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Y. T. Xu, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Y. C. Zhu, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
A. Abashian, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
K. Gotow, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
E. H. Low, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
M. E. Mattson, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
F. Naito, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
L. Piilonen, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
K. L. Sterner, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
S. Lusin, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
C. Rosenfeld, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
A. T.M. Wang, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
S. Wilson, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
M. Frautschi, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
H. Kagan, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1989

Abstract

We present evidence for the non-Abelian nature of QCD from a study of multijet events produced in e+e- annihilations from s =50 to 57 GeV in the AMY detector at the KEK storage ring TRISTAN. A comparison of the three-jet event fraction at TRISTAN to the fraction of the DESY storage ring PETRA shows that the QCD coupling strength ±s decreases with increasing Q2. In addition, measurements of the angular distributions of four-jet events show evidence for the triple-gluon vertex. © 1989 The American Physical Society.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Physical Review Letters

First Page

1713

Last Page

1716

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