Published September 1994 | Version v1
Miscellaneous

Constrained fits of αs and Mtop from e+e- annihilation data

  • 1. Inst. fuer Experimentelle Kernphysik, Univ. Karlsruhe (Germany)
  • 2. Max-Planck-Inst. fuer Physik, Werner-Heisenberg-Inst., Muenchen (Germany)

Description

From all electroweak data of e+e- annihilation experiments on hadronic and leptonic cross sections and the leptonic forward-backward asymmetries in the energy range from 7 to 92 GeV, electroweak precision tests from hadron colliders and νN-scattering, the recently measured top mass from CDF and the result for sin2θlepteff from the measurement of the left-right polarization asymmetry Ae at SLC the standard model parameters Mtop, MZ and αs are fitted. The systematic errors are carefully studied using the full correlation matrix between all experimental results and fitting them directly instead of combining the fitted electroweak parameters from the various experiments. A fit to all data excluding SLC results yields αs=0.1220±0.0049-0.0024+0.0027 and Mtop=168±11±9 GeV, including SLC data gives αs=0.1210±0.0049-0.0022+0.0025 and Mtop=179±10±11 GeV. The second error corresponds to a variation of the Higgs mass in the interval [60,1000] GeV. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Proceedings of the workshop on QCD at LEP. Determinations of #alpha#_s from inclusive observables
Imprint Pagination
100 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 75-83.
Report number
PITHA--94/33

Conference

Title
Determination of alpha s from inclusive observables.
Acronym
Workshop on QCD at LEP
Dates
11 Apr 1994.
Place
Aachen (Germany).