Test of the flavor independence of alpha(s) using next-to-leading order calculations for heavy quarks

We present a test of the flavour independence of the strong coupling constant for charm and bottom quarks with respect to light (uds) quarks, based on a hadronic event sample obtained with the OPAL detector at LEP. Five observables related to global event shapes were used to measure alpha_s in three flavour tagged samples (uds, c and b). The event shape distributions were fitted by Order(alpha_s**2) calculations of jet production taking into account mass effects for the c and b quarks. We find: = 0.997 +- 0.038(stat.) +- 0.030(syst.) +- 0.012(theory) and = 0.993 +- 0.008(stat.) +- 0.006(syst.) +- 0.011(theory) for the ratios alpha_s(charm)/alpha_s(uds) and alpha_s(b)/alpha_s(uds) respectively.

electron positron: colliding beams
electron positron: annihilation
Z0: electroproduction
Z0: hadronic decay
hadron: multiple production
particle identification: flavor
strong interaction: coupling constant
dependence: flavor
event shape analysis
OPAL

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