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Title: Precise determination of α s from the C -parameter distribution

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
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  1. Univ. of Vienna (Austria). Faculty of Physics, and Erwin Schrödinger International Inst. for Mathematical Physics
  2. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Center for Theoretical Physics
  3. Univ. of Vienna (Austria). Faculty of Physics

We present a global fit for αs (mZ), analyzing the available C -parameter data measured at center-of-mass energies between Q = 35 and 207 GeV. The experimental data is compared to a N3 LL' + $$\mathscr{O}$$ (α$$3\atop{s}$$) + Ω1 theoretical prediction (up to the missing four-loop cusp anomalous dimension), which includes power corrections coming from a field-theoretical nonperturbative soft function. The dominant hadronic parameter is its first moment Ω1, which is defined in a scheme which eliminates the $$\mathscr{O}$$ (ΛQCD) renormalon ambiguity. The resummation region plays a dominant role in the C -parameter spectrum, and in this region a fit for αs (mZ) and Ω1 is sufficient. We find αs (mZ) = 0.1123 ± 0.0015 and Ω1 = 0.421 ± 0.063 GeV with χ2/d . o . f . = 0.988 for 404 bins of data. These results agree with the prediction of universality for Ω1 between thrust and C -parameter within 1- σ .

Research Organization:
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0011090
OSTI ID:
1505753
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1179766
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 91, Issue 9; ISSN 1550-7998
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 70 works
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