MEASUREMENT OF ALPHA(S) FROM ENERGY-ENERGY CORRELATIONS AT THE Z(0) RESONANCE

Authors
ABE K ABT I ASH WW ASTON D BACCHETTA N BAIRD KG BALTAY C BAND HR BARAKAT MB BARANKO G BARDON O BARKLOW T BAZARKO AO BENDAVID R BENVENUTI AC BIENZ T BILEI GM BISELLO D BLAYLOCK G BOGART JR BOLTON T BOWER GR BRAU JE BREIDENBACH M BUGG WM BURKE D BURNETT TH BURROWS PN BUSZA W CALCATERRA A CALDWELL DO CALLOWAY D CAMANZI B CARPINELLI M CASSELL R CASTALDI R CASTRO A CAVALLISFORZA M CHURCH E COHN HO COLLER JA COOK V COTTON R COWAN RF COYNE DG DOLIVEIRA A DAMERELL CJS DASU S DESANGRO R DESIMONE P DELLORSO R DU YC DUBOIS R EISENSTEIN BI ELIA R FAN C FERO MJ FREY R FURUNO K GILLMAN T GLADDING G GONZALEZ S HALLEWELL GD HART EL HASEGAWA Y HEDGES S HERTZBACH SS HILDRETH MD HUBER J HUFFER ME HUGHES EW HWANG H IWASAKI Y JACQUES P JAROS J JOHNSON AS JOHNSON JR JOHNSON RA JUNK T KAJIKAWA R KALELKAR M KARLINER I KAWAHARA H KENDALL HW KING ME KING R KOFLER RR KRISHNA NM KROEGER RS KWON Y LABS JF LANGSTON M LATH A LAUBER JA LEITH DWG LIU X LORETI M LU A LYNCH HL MA J MANCINELLI G MANLY S MANTOVANI G MARKIEWICZ TW MARUYAMA T MASUDA H MAZZUCATO E MCKEMEY AK MEADOWS BT MESSNER R MOCKETT PM MOFFEIT KC MOURS B MULLER G MULLER D NAGAMINE T NAUENBERG U NEAL H NUSSBAUM M OSBORNE LS PANVINI RS PARK H PAVEL TJ PERUZZI I PESCARA L PICCOLO M PIEMONTESE L PIERONI E PITTS KT PLANO RJ PREPOST R PRESCOTT CY PUNKAR GD QUIGLEY J RATCLIFF BN REEVES TW RENSING PE ROCHESTER LS ROTHBERG JE ROWSON PC RUSSELL JJ SAXTON OH SCHALK T SCHINDLER RH SCHNEEKLOTH U SCHUMM BA SEIDEN A SEN S SHAEVITZ MH SHANK JT SHAPIRO G SHERDEN DJ SIMOPOULOS C SMITH SR SNYDER JA STAMER P STEINER H STEINER R STRAUSS MG SU D SUEKANE F SUGIYAMA A SUZUKI S SWARTZ M SZUMILO A TAKAHASHI T TAYLOR FE TORRENCE E TURK JD USHER T VAVRA J VANNINI C VELLA E VENUTI JP VERDINI PG WAGNER SR WAITE AP WATTS SJ WEIDEMANN AW WHITAKER JS WHITE SL WICKENS FJ WILLIAMS DA WILLIAMS DC WILLIAMS SH WILLOCQ S WILSON RJ WISNIEWSKI WJ WOODS M WORD GB WYSS J YAMAMOTO RK YAMARTINO JM YELLIN SJ YOUNG CC YUTA H ZAPALAC G ZDARKO RW ZEITLIN C ZHOU J
Citation
K. Abe et al., MEASUREMENT OF ALPHA(S) FROM ENERGY-ENERGY CORRELATIONS AT THE Z(0) RESONANCE, Physical review. D. Particles and fields, 50(9), 1994, pp. 5580-5590
Citations number
39
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields
ISSN journal
05562821
Volume
50
Issue
9
Year of publication
1994
Pages
5580 - 5590
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2821(1994)50:9<5580:MOAFEC>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
We determine the strong coupling alpha(s) from a comprehensive study o f energy-energy correlations (EEC) and their asymmetry (AEEC) in hadro nic decays of Z(0) bosons collected by the SLD experiment at SLAC. The data are compared with all four available predictions of QCD calculat ed up to O(alpha(s)(2)) in perturbation theory, and also with a resumm ed calculation matched to all four of these calculations. We find larg e discrepancies between alpha(s) values extracted from the different O (alpha(s)(2)) calculations. We also find a large renormalization scale ambiguity in alpha(s) determined from the EEC using the O(alpha(s)(2) ) calculations; this ambiguity is reduced in the case of the AEEC and is very small when the matched calculations are used. Averaging over a ll calculation, and over the EEC and AEEC results, we obtain alpha(s)( M(Z)(2)) = 0.124(-0.004)(+0.003)(expt.)+/-0.009(theory).