Jet activity versus alignment

Abstract

The hypothesis about the relation between the observed alignment of spots in the x-ray film in cosmic ray emulsion experiments and the features of events in which jets prevail at super high energies is tested. Due to strong dynamical correlation between jet axis directions and that between momenta of jet particles (almost collinearity), the evaluated degree of alignment is considerably larger than that for randomly selected chaoticly located spots in the x-ray film. It appears comparable with experimental data provided that the height of primary interaction, the collision energy and the total energy of selected clusters meet certain conditions. The Monte Carlo generator PYTHIA, which basically well describes jet events in hadron-hadron interactions, was used for the analysis.