Theoretical uncertainties on αs from event-shape variables in e+e- annihilations

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 189-218

  Jones, Roger W L ^a   Ford, Matthew ^b   Salam, Gavin P ^c   Stenzel, Hasko ^d   Wicke, Daniel ^e  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c LPTHE   (France)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Jets; NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044460406     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/12/007     Document Type: Article

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