Area Decay Law Implementation for Quark String Fragmentation

Abstract

We apply the Area Decay Law (ADL) straightforwardly to simulate a quark string hadronization and compare the results with the explicit analytic calculations. We show that the usual "inclusive" Monte--Carlo simulations do not correspond to the ADL because of two mistakes: not proper simulation of two--dimensional probability density and lack of an important combinatorial factor in a binary tree simulation. We also show how to simulate area decay law "inclusively" avoiding the above--mentioned mistakes.

Comments: 5 pages (REVTEX) + 3 figures (available in ps format from G.G.Leptoukh <visitor@pyrssc.physics.ncsu.edu>, IPGAS-HE/93-3, to be published in Phys. Rev. D