A Measurement of alpha-s from jet rates at the Z0 resonance

We have determined the strong coupling αs from measurements of jet rates in hadronic decays of Z0 bosons collected by the SLD experiment at SLAC. Using six collinear and infrared safe jet algorithms we compared our data with the predictions of QCD calculated up to second order in perturbation theory, and also with resummed calculations. We find αs(MZ2)=0.118±0.002(stat)±0.003(syst)±0.010(theory), where the dominant uncertainty is from uncalculated higher order contributions.

electron positron: colliding beams
colliding beams: electron positron
electron positron: annihilation
annihilation: electron positron
Z0: electroproduction
electroproduction: Z0
Z0: nonleptonic decay
nonleptonic decay: Z0
jet: multiple production
multiple production: jet

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