The present situation in the determination of α_s

2003/08/29 by Oliver Passon, Passon, Oliver
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0308314

to be published in the proceedings of the DIS03 workshop, St. Petersburg 23.-27.april, 2003 (references added)

arxiv created 2003/09/03 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

This note reviews the latest measurements of α_s from event shapes in e⁺e^- annihilation at LEP1 and LEP2. A critical review of different methods to extract \as is offered.

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