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A simultaneous measurement of the QCD colour factors and the strong coupling

Author(s) -

G. Abbiendi

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

the european physical journal c

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.938

H-Index - 198

eISSN - 1434-6052

pISSN - 1434-6044

DOI - 10.1007/s100520100699

Subject(s) - physics , hadronization , annihilation , particle physics , quantum chromodynamics , hadron , perturbative qcd , electron–positron annihilation , order (exchange) , coupling (piping) , jet (fluid) , standard model (mathematical formulation) , gauge (firearms) , mechanical engineering , history , archaeology , finance , engineering , economics , thermodynamics

Using data from e+e− annihilation into hadrons, taken with the OPAL detector at LEP at the Z pole between 1991 and 1995, we performed a simultaneous measurement of the colour factors of the underlying gauge group of the strong interaction, CF and CA, and the strong coupling, αs. The measurement was carried out by fitting next-to-leading order perturbative predictions to measured angular correlations of 4-jet events together with multi-jet related variables. Our results, CA = 3.02 ± 0.25(stat.) ± 0.49(syst.), CF = 1.34 ± 0.13(stat.) ± 0.22(syst.), αs(MZ )=0.120 ± 0.011(stat.) ± 0.020(syst.), provide a test of perturbative QCD in which the only assumptions are non-abelian gauge symmetry and standard hadronization models. The measurements are in agreement with SU(3) expectations for CF and CA and the world average of αs(MZ)

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