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A study of jet rates and measurement of αs at the Z0 resonance

  • 1. Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO (United States)

Description

We present jet rates in hadronic decays of Z0 bosons measured by the SLD experiment at SLAC. The data are analyzed in terms of the JADE and recently proposed Durham algorithms, and are found to be in agreement with the predictions of perturbative QCD plus fragmentation Monte Carlo models of hadron production. Corrected 2, 3 and 4-jet rates are well described by ο(αs2) perturbative QCD calculations. From fits to the differential 2-jet distribution the strong coupling αs(MZ) is measured to be αs(MZ) = 0.119 ± 0.002(stat.) ± 0.003(exp.syst.) ± 0.014(theory) (preliminary). The largest contribution to the error arises from the theoretical uncertainty in choosing the QCD renormalisation scale

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MF available from INIS under the Report Number; OSTI as DE93004092; NTIS; INIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep.

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
3 p.
Report number
SLAC-PUB--5974

Conference

Title
Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physics Society.
Dates
10-14 Nov 1992.
Place
Batavia, IL (United States).

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract AC03-76SF00515
Collaborations
The SLD Collaboration.
Funding organization
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States).
Secondary number(s)
COLO-HEP--293; CONF-921122--1.