A precise determination of α s from LEP thrust data using effective field theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Becher, Thomas ^a   Schwartz, Matthew D ^b  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

NLO Computations; QCD; Renormalization Group

Indexed keywords

EID: 57149125848     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/034     Document Type: Article

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