Journal article
The production of neutral kaons in Z0 decays and their Bose-Einstein correlations
R Akers, G Alexander, J Allison, K Ametewee, KJ Anderson, S Arcelli, S Asai, D Axen, G Azuelos, AH Ball, E Barberio, RJ Barlow, R Bartoldus, JR Batley, G Beaudoin, A Beck, GA Beck, C Beeston, T Behnke, KW Bell Show all
European Physical Journal C | SPRINGER VERLAG | Published : 1995
DOI: 10.1007/BF01624582
Abstract
The production of neutral kaons in e+e- annihilation at centre-of-mass energies in the region of the Z0 mass and their Bose-Einstein correlations are investigated with the OPAL detector at LEP. A total of about 1.26×106 Z0 hadronic decay events are used in the analysis. The production rate of K0 mesons is found to be 1.99±0.01±0.04 per hadronic event, where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. Both the rate and the differential cross section for K0 production are compared to the predictions of Monte Carlo generators. This comparison indicates that the fragmentation is too soft in both Jetset and Herwig. Bose-Einstein correlations in Ks 0Ks 0 pairs are measured through th..
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