COLOR DISTRIBUTION IN HADRON-HADRON SCATTERING

In high pt quark-quark scattering a simple picture emerges for the colour distribution in the final state: the scattered quark of one of the incident hadrons forms a colour singlet with the spectators of the other hadron, i.e., the four fast coloured objects form two singlets. We assume that the decay of each colour single pair - apart from a trivial boost - is similar to that observed in deep inelastic lepton-hadron scattering. This picture leads to measurable anticorrelations for energy fluxes carried by low momentum particles. The predicted asymmetry is significant only in qq scattering, but not in qq, qg,... scattering, which leads to specific predictions. © 1979.