A measurement of the QCD colour factors using event shape distributions at s**(1/2) = 14-GeV to 189-GeV.

Kluth, S. ; Movilla Fernandez, P.A. ; Bethke, S. ; et al.
Eur.Phys.J.C 21 (2001) 199-210, 2001.
Inspire Record 539001 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.43262

Measurements of the QCD colour factors C_A and C_F and of the number of active quark flavours n_f in the process e+e- -> hadrons at high energy are presented. They are based on fits of O(alpha_S**2)+NLLA QCD calculations to distributions of the event shape observables 1-T, C, B_T and B_W measured at centre-of-mass energies from 14 GeV to 189 GeV. Hadronisation effects are approximated with power correction calculations which also depend on the QCD gauge structure. In this approach potential biases from hadronisation models are reduced. Our results for individually measured quantities are n_f = 5.64 +- 1.35, C_A = 2.88 +- 0.27 and C_F = 1.45 +- 0.27 in good agreement with QCD based on the SU(3) symmetry group where n_f=5 for the energies considered here, C_A=3 and C_F=4/3. From simultaneous fits of C_A and C_F we find C_A = 2.84 +- 0.24 and C_F = 1.29 +- 0.18, which is also in good agreement with the QCD expectation.

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CA, CF, are the color factors for SU(N) group. NF is the number of the active flavors.


Measurement of alpha(s) using NLLA + O (alpha-s**2) in e+ e- annihilation at s**(1/2) = 58-GeV

The AMY collaboration Kim, D.Y. ; Kang, J.S. ; Myung, S.S. ; et al.
Phys.Lett.B 420 (1998) 233-240, 1998.
Inspire Record 455114 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.28221

A measurement of the strong coupling constant α S is presented using hadronic events produced in e + e − annihilations at s =58.0 GeV from the AMY detector at TRISTAN. The measurement is based on comparisons of the distributions of thrust, heavy jet mass, total jet broadening, wide jet broadening, and energy-energy correlations with QCD calculations resummed up to next-to-leading-logarithms matched with the O ( α S 2 ) perturbative calculation. Combining the results of the individual evaluations, we find α S (58 GeV )=0.132±0.006 .

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Measurements of alpha-s in e+ e- annihilation at TRISTAN

The TOPAZ collaboration Ohnishi, Y. ; Adachi, I. ; Fujimoto, J. ; et al.
Phys.Lett.B 313 (1993) 475-482, 1993.
Inspire Record 361661 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.43784

The strong coupling constant α s was determined from analyses of the thrust, heavy jet mass and, differential 2-jet rate, using e + e - hadronic events at s = 58 GeV with the TOPAZ detector at TRISTAN. The NLLjet Monte Carlo simulation (NLLjet) and analytic formulae based on resummation up to the next-to-leading logarithms combined with O ( α 2 s ) calculations were used to evaluate α s . The average α s values at Q 2 = (58 GeV) 2 from the analyses are α s = 0.125 ± 0.009 for NLLjet and α s = 0.132 ± 0.008 for the resummed analytic formulae.

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