NLO calculations of the three-jet heavy quark production in e⁺e^--annihilation: status and applications

1998/11/25 by M.S. Bilenky, Mikhail Bilenky, German Rodrigo +5
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Superconducting Materials and Applications #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9811465

LaTeX, 5 pages, 6 figures, uses ltwol2e.sty Reference to Phys.Lett. B418(1998)430 is corrected. Contribution to the XXIX International Conference on High Energy Physics, (Vancouver, Canada, July 1998)

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Abstract

Next-to-leading order calculations for heavy quark three-jet production in e+e- annihilation are reviewed. Their applications for the measurement of the b-quark mass at LEP/SLC and for the test of flavour independence of the strong coupling constant are discussed.

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