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The negative binomial distribution in quark jets with fixed flavour

Alberto Giovannini, Sergio Lupia, Roberto Ugoccioni

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9609306

Abstract

We show that both the multiplicity distribution and the ratio of factorial cumulants over factorial moments for 2-jet events in e+e- annihilation at the Z0 peak can be well reproduced by the weighted superposition of two negative binomial distributions, associated to the contribution of b b and light flavoured events respectively. The negative binomial distribution is then suggested to describe the multiplicity distribution of 2-jet events with fixed flavour.

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