Determination of the strong coupling constant using matched NNLO+NLLA predictions for hadronic event shapes in e +e - annihilations

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Dissertori, G ^a   Gehrmann De Ridder, A ^a   Gehrmann, T ^b   Glover, E W N ^c   Heinrich, G ^c   Luisoni, G ^b   Stenzel, H ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Jets; LEP HERA and SLC physics; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 71549139919     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/08/036     Document Type: Article

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