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Measurement of the strong coupling αS from the three-jet rate in e+e--annihilation using JADE data

  • J. Schieck*
  • , S. Bethke
  • , S. Kluth
  • , C. Pahl
  • , Z. Trócsány
  • , J. Allison
  • , K. Ambrus
  • , J. Armitage
  • , J. Baines
  • , A. H. Ball
  • , G. Bamford
  • , R. Barlow
  • , W. Bartel
  • , L. Becker
  • , A. Bell
  • , S. Bethke
  • , C. Bowdery
  • , T. Canzler
  • , S. L. Cartwright
  • , J. Chrin
  • D. Clarke, D. Cords, D. C. Darvill, A. Dieckmann, G. Dietrich, P. Dittmann, H. Drumm, I. P. Duerdoth, G. Eckerlin, R. Eichler, E. Elsen, R. Felst, A. Finch, F. Foster, R. G. Glasser, I. Glendinning, M. C. Goddard, T. Greenshaw, J. Hagemann, D. Haidt, J. F. Hassard, R. Hedgecock, J. Heintze, G. Heinzelmann, G. Heinzelmann, K. H. Hellenbrand, M. Helm, R. Heuer, P. Hill, G. Hughes, M. Imori, H. Junge, H. Kado, J. Kanzaki, S. Kawabata, K. Kawagoe, T. Kawamoto, B. T. King, C. Kleinwort, G. Knies, T. Kobayashi, S. Komamiya, M. Koshiba, H. Krehbiel, M. Kuhlen, P. Laurikainen, P. Lennert, K. Loebinger, A. A. Macbeth, N. Magnussen, R. Marshall, T. Mashimo, H. Matsumura, H. McCann, K. Meier, R. Meinke, R. P. Middleton, H. E. Mills, M. Minowa, P. G. Murphy, B. Naroska, T. Nozaki, M. Nozaki
*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We present a measurement of the strong coupling αS using the three-jet rate measured with the Durham algorithm in e+e--annihilation using data of the JADE experiment at centre-of-mass energies between 14 and 44 GeV. Recent theoretical improvements provide predictions of the three-jet rate in e+e--annihilation at next-to-next-to-leading order. In this paper a measurement of the three-jet rate is used to determine the strong coupling αS from a comparison to next-to-next-to-leading order predictions matched with next-to-leading logarithmic approximations and yields a value for the strong coupling [Equation not available: see fulltext.] consistent with the world average.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-16
Number of pages16
JournalThe European Physical Journal C
Volume73
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Mar 2013

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