Measurement of alpha-s from energy-energy correlations at the Z0 resonance

The SLD collaboration Abe, K. ; Abt, I. ; Ash, W.W. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.D 50 (1994) 5580-5590, 1994.
Inspire Record 373005 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.17744

We have determined the strong coupling $\as$ from a comprehensive study of energy-energy correlations ($EEC$) and their asymmetry ($AEEC$) in hadronic decays of $Z~0$ bosons collected by the SLD experiment at SLAC. The data were compared with all four available predictions of QCD calculated up to $\Oa2$ in perturbation theory, and also with a resummed calculation matched to all four of these calculations. We find large discrepancies between $\as$ values extracted from the different $\Oa2$ calculations. We also find a large renormalization scale ambiguity in $\as$ determined from the $EEC$ using the $\Oa2$ calculations; this ambiguity is reduced in the case of the $AEEC$, and is very small when the matched calculations are used. Averaging over all calculations, and over the $EEC$ and $AEEC$ results, we obtain $\asz=0.124~{+0.003}_{-0.004} (exp.) \pm 0.009 (theory).$

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Statistical errors only.

Statistical errors only.

ALPHAS from the EEC O(ALPHAS**2) measurement.

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A Determination of alpha-s (M (Z0)) at LEP using resummed QCD calculations

The OPAL collaboration Acton, P.D. ; Alexander, G. ; Allison, John ; et al.
Z.Phys.C 59 (1993) 1-20, 1993.
Inspire Record 354188 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.14427

The strong coupling constant, αs, has been determined in hadronic decays of theZ0 resonance, using measurements of seven observables relating to global event shapes, energy correlatio

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Data corrected for finite acceptance and resolution of the detector and for intial state photon radiation. No corrections for hadronic effects are applied.. Errors include statistical and systematic uncertainties, added in quadrature.

Data corrected for finite acceptance and resolution of the detector and for intial state photon radiation. No corrections for hadronic effects are applied.. Errors include statistical and systematic uncertainties, added in quadrature.

Data corrected for finite acceptance and resolution of the detector and for intial state photon radiation. No corrections for hadronic effects are applied.. Errors include statistical and systematic uncertainties, added in quadrature.

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Determination of alpha-s from hadronic event shapes measured on the Z0 resonance

The L3 collaboration Adrian, O. ; Aguilar-Benitez, M. ; Ahlen, S. ; et al.
Phys.Lett.B 284 (1992) 471-481, 1992.
Inspire Record 334951 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.29157

We present a study of the global event shape variables thrust and heavy jet mass, of energy-energy correlations and of jet multiplicities based on 250 000 hadronic Z 0 decays. The data are compared to new QCD calculations including resummation of leading and next-to-leading logarithms to all orders. We determine the strong coupling constant α s (91.2 GeV) = 0.125±0.003 (exp) ± 0.008 (theor). The first error is the experimental uncertainty. The second error is due to hadronization uncertainties and approximations in the calculations of the higher order corrections.

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Measured EEC distribution corrected for detector effects and photon radiation. Errors are combined statistical and systematic uncertainties.

Measured average jet multiplicities for the K_PT algorithm. All numbers are corrected for detector effects and photon radiation. Errors are combined statistical and systematic uncertainties.

Value of strong coupling constant, alpha_s, determined from the data. First error is experimental, the second is theoretical.