QCD studies with $e^{+}e^{-}$ annihilation data at 172-189 GeV

We have studied hadronic events from e+e- annihilation data at centre-of-mass energies of sqrt{s}=172, 183 and 189 GeV. The total integrated luminosity of the three samples, measured with the OPAL detector, corresponds to 250 pb^-1. We present distributions of event shape variables, charged particle...

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Autores principales: Abbiendi, G., Ackerstaff, K., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Ashby, S.F., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Ball, A.H., Barberio, E., Barlow, Roger J., Batley, J.R., Baumann, S., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Biguzzi, A., Bloodworth, I.J., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Boeriu, O., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Bright-Thomas, P., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, 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., Cooke, O.C., Couchman, J., Couyoumtzelis, C., Coxe, R.L., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., Davis, R., de Roeck, A., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Estabrooks, P.G., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Fanfani, A., Fanti, M., Faust, A.A., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fierro, M., Fleck, I., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Gingrich, D.M., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Gorn, W., Grandi, C., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Hajdu, C., Hanson, G.G., Hansroul, M., Hapke, M., Harder, K., Harel, A., Hargrove, C.K., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauke, A., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., 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., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Kayal, P.I., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., 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., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Liebisch, R., Lillich, J., List, B., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, A.W., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Mannelli, M., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Meyer, I., 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., Pfeifenschneider, P., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rembser, C., Rick, H., 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., 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., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Stoll, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Surrow, B., Talbot, S.D., Tarem, S., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thiergen, M., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Towers, S., Trefzger, T., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Van Kooten, Rick J., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., 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: 2000
Materias:
Particle Physics - Experiment
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s100520050015
http://cds.cern.ch/record/425565
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Sumario:We have studied hadronic events from e+e- annihilation data at centre-of-mass energies of sqrt{s}=172, 183 and 189 GeV. The total integrated luminosity of the three samples, measured with the OPAL detector, corresponds to 250 pb^-1. We present distributions of event shape variables, charged particle multiplicity and momentum, measured separately in the three data samples. From these we extract measurements of the strong coupling alpha_s, the mean charged particle multiplicity <nch> and the peak position xi_0 in the xi_p=ln(1/x_p) distribution. In general the data are described well by analytic QCD calculations and Monte Carlo models. Our measured values of alpha_s, <nch> and xi_0 are consistent with previous determinations at sqrt{s}=MZ.

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