QCD results from studies of hadronic events produced in e+e- annihilations at √s = 183 GeV

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作者
Acciarri, M
Adriani, O
Aguilar-Benitez, M
Ahlen, S
Alcaraz, J
Alemanni, G
Allaby, J
Aloisio, A
Alviggi, MG
Ambrosi, G
Anderhub, H
Andreev, VP
Angelescu, T
Anselmo, F
Arefiev, A
Azemoon, T
Aziz, T
Bagnaia, P
Baksay, L
Banerjee, S
Banerjee, S
Banicz, K
Barczyk, A
Barillère, R
Barone, L
Bartalini, P
Baschirotto, A
Basile, M
Battiston, R
Bay, A
Becattini, F
Becker, U
Behner, F
Berdugo, J
Berges, P
Bertucci, B
Betev, BL
Bhattacharya, S
Biasini, M
Biland, A
Bilei, GM
Blaising, JJ
Blyth, SC
Bobbink, GJ
Bock, R
Böhm, A
Boldizsar, L
Borgia, B
Bourilkov, D
Bourquin, M
机构
[1] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 1, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[3] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[4] NIKHEF H, Natl Inst High Energy Phys, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[5] Univ Amsterdam, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[6] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[7] CNRS, IN2P3, LAPP, Lab Annecy Le Vieux Phys Particules, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[8] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[9] Univ Basel, Inst Phys, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
[10] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[11] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[12] Humboldt Univ, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
[13] Univ Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[14] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[15] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[16] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[17] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[18] Inst Atom Phys, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[19] Univ Bucharest, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[20] Hungarian Acad Sci, Cent Res Inst Phys, H-1525 Budapest 114, Hungary
[21] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[22] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[23] Univ Florence, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[24] CERN, European Lab Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[25] World Lab, FBLJA Project, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[26] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[27] Chinese Univ Sci & Technol, USTC, Hefei 230029, Anhui, Peoples R China
[28] Res Inst High Energy Phys, SEFT, SF-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[29] Univ Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[30] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[31] Univ Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[32] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA
[33] Univ Lyon 1, Inst Phys Nucl Lyon, IN2P3, CNRS, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[34] CIEMAT, Ctr Invest Energet Medioambientales & Tecnol, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[35] ITEP, Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow, Russia
[36] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[37] Univ Naples Federico II, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[38] Univ Cyprus, Dept Nat Sci, Nicosia, Cyprus
[39] Catholic Univ Nijmegen, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[40] Natl Inst Nucl Phys & High Energy Phys, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[41] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[42] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[43] Univ Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[44] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[45] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[46] Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[47] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[48] Inst Phys Nucl, St Petersburg, Russia
[49] Univ Salerno, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[50] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
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10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01404-X
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摘要
We present results obtained from a study of the structure of hadronic events recorded by the L3 detector at a centre-of-mass energy of 183 GeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 55.3 pb(-1). The distributions of event shape variables and the energy dependence of their mean values are measured. From a comparison with resummed O(alpha(s)(2)) QCD calculations, we determine the strong coupling constant alpha(s) (183 GeV) = 0.1086 +/- 0.0026(exp) +/- 0.0054(th). The charged particle multiplicity distribution and momentum spectrum are studied and the energy dependence of the peak position of the xi(= - ln x(p)) distribution is compared with lower energy measurements and QCD expectations. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.
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页码:569 / 582
页数:14
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