Experimental evidence for the non-Abelian nature of QCD from a study of multijet events produced ine+e−</...

Abstract

We present evidence for the non-Abelian nature of QCD from a study of multijet events produced in ${e}^{+}$${e}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}}$ annihilations from \ensuremath{\surd}s =50 to 57 GeV in the AMY detector at the KEK storage ring TRISTAN. A comparison of the three-jet event fraction at TRISTAN to the fraction of the DESY storage ring PETRA shows that the QCD coupling strength ${\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}$ decreases with increasing ${Q}^{2}$. In addition, measurements of the angular distributions of four-jet events show evidence for the triple-gluon vertex.