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AVERAGE PARTICLE MULTIPLICITIES IN HADRONIC ${{\mathit Z}}$ DECAY

Summed over particle and antiparticle, when appropriate.

$\langle{}\mathit N_{{{\mathit \Lambda}}}\rangle{}$

INSPIRE JSON (beta) PDGID:

VALUE

DOCUMENT ID

TECN

COMMENT

$\bf{ 0.388 \pm0.009}$

OUR AVERAGE Error includes scale factor of 1.7.

See the ideogram below.

$0.404$ $\pm0.002$ $\pm0.007$

ALEP

${\it{}E}^{\it{}ee}_{\rm{}cm}$= $91.2$ GeV

$0.395$ $\pm0.022$

SLD

${\it{}E}^{\it{}ee}_{\rm{}cm}$= $91.2$ GeV

$0.364$ $\pm0.004$ $\pm0.017$

L3

${\it{}E}^{\it{}ee}_{\rm{}cm}$= $91.2$ GeV

$0.374$ $\pm0.002$ $\pm0.010$

OPAL

${\it{}E}^{\it{}ee}_{\rm{}cm}$= $91.2$ GeV

$0.357$ $\pm0.003$ $\pm0.017$

DLPH

${\it{}E}^{\it{}ee}_{\rm{}cm}$= $91.2$ GeV

$\langle{}\mathit N_{{{\mathit \Lambda}}}\rangle{}$

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