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Test of the Flavour Independence of $\alpha_{s}$ using Next-to-Leading Order Calculations for Heavy Quarks

We present a test of the flavour independence of the strong coupling constant for charm and bottom quarks with respect to light (uds) quarks, based on a hadronic event sample obtained with the OPAL detector at LEP. Five observables related to global event shapes were used to measure alpha_s in three...

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Autores principales: Abbiendi, G., Ackerstaff, K., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Altekamp, N., Anderson, K.J., Anderson, S., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Ashby, S.F., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Ball, A.H., Barberio, E., Barlow, Roger J., Batley, J.R., Baumann, S., Bechtluft, J., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, S., Betts, S., Biebel, O., Biguzzi, A., Bloodworth, I.J., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Bright-Thomas, P., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Chrisman, D., Ciocca, C., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Conboy, J.E., Cooke, O.C., Couchman, J., Couyoumtzelis, C., Coxe, R.L., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Davis, R., De Jong, S., de Roeck, A., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Estabrooks, P.G., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Fanfani, A., Fanti, M., Faust, A.A., Fiedler, F., Fierro, M., Fleck, I., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gascon-Shotkin, S.M., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Gibson, V., Gibson, W.R., Gingrich, D.M., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Gorn, W., Grandi, C., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Hajdu, C., Hanson, G.G., Hansroul, M., Hapke, M., Harder, K., Harel, A., Hargrove, C.K., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Herndon, M., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hildreth, M.D., Hill, J.C., Hobson, P.R., Hocker, James Andrew, Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Honma, A.K., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Imrie, D.C., Ishii, K., Jacob, F.R., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jimack, M., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Kayal, P.I., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klier, A., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Kolrep, M., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kuhl, T., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lauber, J., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Liebisch, R., List, B., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, A.W., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Lui, D., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Mannelli, M., Marcellini, S., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., Mckigney, E.A., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Montanari, A., Mori, T., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oakham, F.G., Odorici, F., Ogren, H.O., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Patt, J., Perez-Ochoa, R., Petzold, S., Pfeifenschneider, P., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poffenberger, P., Poli, B., Polok, J., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rembser, C., Rick, H., Robertson, S., Robins, S.A., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rossi, A.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Runolfsson, O., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sang, W.M., Sarkisian, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schmitt, S., Schoning, A., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G.P., Sittler, A., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Steuerer, J., Stoll, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Surrow, B., Talbot, S.D., Taras, P., Tarem, S., Teuscher, R., Thiergen, M., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Towers, S., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Van Kooten, Rick J., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Wackerle, F., Wagner, A., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., White, J.S., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., Zer-Zion, D.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 1999
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s100520050661
http://cds.cern.ch/record/384672
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Sumario:We present a test of the flavour independence of the strong coupling constant for charm and bottom quarks with respect to light (uds) quarks, based on a hadronic event sample obtained with the OPAL detector at LEP. Five observables related to global event shapes were used to measure alpha_s in three flavour tagged samples (uds, c and b). The event shape distributions were fitted by Order(alpha_s**2) calculations of jet production taking into account mass effects for the c and b quarks. We find: = 0.997 +- 0.038(stat.) +- 0.030(syst.) +- 0.012(theory) and = 0.993 +- 0.008(stat.) +- 0.006(syst.) +- 0.011(theory) for the ratios alpha_s(charm)/alpha_s(uds) and alpha_s(b)/alpha_s(uds) respectively.