Status of the Strong Coupling Constant

1997/01/09 by M. Schmelling, Michael Schmelling, Schmelling, Michael · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Molecular Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Nuclear physics research studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ex

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/9701002

18 pages, 6 figures, Plenary talk given at the XXVIII Intern. Conf. on High Energy Physics, Warsaw, July 25-31, 1996

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Abstract

The current status of measurements of the strong coupling constant from different reactions is reviewed. Including new results presented at the 1996 ICHEP conference, a global average alpha_s(Mz) = 0.118 +- 0.003 is obtained.

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