A measurement of alpha(s) from the scaling violation in e(+)e(-) annihilation

A measurement of alpha(s) from the scaling violation in e(+)e(-) annihilation

The hadronic fragmentation functions of the various quark flavours and of gluons are measured in a study of the inclusive hadron production from Z0 decays with the DELPHI detector and are compared with the fragmentation functions measured elsewhere at energies between 14 GeV and 91 GeV. A large scal...

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Main Authors: Abreu, P, Adam, W, Adye, T, Ajinenko, I, Alekseev, G, Alemany, R, Allport, P, Almehed, S, Amaldi, U, Amato, S, Andreazza, A, Andrieux, M, Antilogus, P, Apel, W, Asman, B, Augustin, J, Augustinus, A, Baillon, P, Bambade, P, Barao, F, Barbi, M, Barbiellini, G, Bardin, D, Barker, G, Baroncelli, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 1997
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Summary:The hadronic fragmentation functions of the various quark flavours and of gluons are measured in a study of the inclusive hadron production from Z0 decays with the DELPHI detector and are compared with the fragmentation functions measured elsewhere at energies between 14 GeV and 91 GeV. A large scaling violation is observed, which is used to extract the strong coupling constant from a fit using a numerical integration of the second order DGLAP evolution equations. The result is αs(Mz) = 0.1241+0.006-0.007(exp) ±0.009(theory) where the first error represents the experimental uncertainty and the second error is due to the factorization and renormalization scale dependence. © 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.

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