M. Acciarri et al., STUDY OF THE STRUCTURE OF HADRONIC EVENTS AND DETERMINATION OF ALPHA(S) AT ROOT-S=130 GEV AND 136 GEV, Physics letters. Section B, 371(1-2), 1996, pp. 137-148
We present a study of the structure of hadronic events recorded by the
L3 detector at center-of-mass energies of 130 and 136 GeV. The data s
ample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5 pb(-1) collected du
ring the high energy run of 1995. The shapes of the event shape distri
butions and the energy dependence of their mean values are well reprod
uced by QCD models. From a comparison of the data with resummed O(alph
a(s)(2)) QCD calculations, we determine the strong coupling constant t
o be alpha(s)(133 GeV) = 0.107 +/- 0.005(exp) +/- 0.006(theor).