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A study of individual jet and whole-event charged particle multiplicities in three-jet events measured in e + e − annihilation at the Z reveals a significant topology dependence. Mean jet multiplicities are inadequately described by jet energies; interjet angles must also be specified. Quantitative tests suggest that it is necessary to use transversemomentum- like scales to describe the data.
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The ALEPH Collaboration. The topology dependence of charged particle multiplicities in three-jet events. Z Phys C - Particles and Fields 76, 191–199 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002880050543
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