Precise Determination of the Strong Coupling Constant at NNLO in QCD from the Three-Jet Rate in Electron-Positron Annihilation at LEP
Precise Determination of the Strong Coupling Constant at NNLO in QCD from the Three-Jet Rate in Electron-Positron Annihilation at LEP
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从 LEP 正负电子湮灭中的三射流速率精确确定 QCD 中 NNLO 的强耦合常数
DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.104.072002
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发表时间:
2010
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8.6
通讯作者:
Dissertori G
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作者:
Dissertori G
We present the first determination of the strong coupling constant from the three-jet rate inannihilation at LEP, based on a next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) perturbative QCD prediction. More precisely, we extractby fitting perturbative QCD predictions atto data from the ALEPH experiment at LEP. Over a large range of the jet-resolution parameter, this observable is characterized by small nonperturbative corrections and an excellent stability under renormalization scale variation. We find αs(MZ)=0.1175±0.0020(expt)±0.0015(theor), which is more accurate than the values offromevent-shape data currently used in the world average.