1. Measurement of αs from b production at the cern p collider
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P. I. P. Kalmus, J. Dorenbosch, J. Gronberg, M. Vargas, Matthias Schröder, H. Faissner, B. Gonzalez, S. Lammel, E. Pietarinen, Daniel Denegri, H. Teykal, K. Ankoviak, R. Priem, David B. Cline, R. Prosi, Christopher Seez, D. Schinzel, M. P. J. Landon, G. Walzel, Carmen Albajar, H. Wagner, S. Tether, L. Fortson, Nicolas Ellis, A. Norton, E. Eisenhandler, K. Eggert, M. Markytan, H. Castilla-Valdez, S. Levegrün, J. P. Revol, W. von Schlippe, Ritva Kinnunen, Alain Givernaud, T.I. Meyer, L. Taylor, Jorma Tuominiemi, J. A. Caughlan, D. Samyn, S. Otwinowski, P. Sphicas, A. Moulin, I. R. Kenyon, Achim Geiser, Peter Lipa, P. Cennini, T.P. Shah, B. Buschbeck, G. Maurin, Andreas Morsch, W. van de Guchte, Y. Lemoigne, W. Jank, M. Della Negra, C.-E. Wulz, H. Evans, M. Rauschkolb, C. D. Buchanan, H. Tuchscherer, V. Vuillemin, Jean-Pierre Merlo, A. Bezaguet, Tejinder Virdee, S. Bartha, C. Rubbia, G. Bauer, D. H. Stork, C. Markou, Hans Reithler, J. Garvey, A. Gonidec, A. van Dijk, J. D. Dowell, I. F. Fensome, E. F. Clayton, K. Wacker, M. Mohammadi, G. Jorat, Sergio Cittolin, Manfred Krammer, C.H. Tan, Konstanty Sumorok, A. Placci, M. Pimiä, Dave Robinson, C. Daum, E. Radermacher, J. P. Porte, F. Szoncso, R. Schleichert, D. J. Holthuizen, K. Bos, M. Demoulin, Veikko Karimäki, D. Dau, Pierluigi Zotto, H. Dibon, G. Thompson, G. Pancheri, A. Böhrer, Steve McMahon, Anton Taurok, and T. Moers
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Quantum chromodynamics ,Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Large Hadron Collider ,Hadron ,law.invention ,Renormalization ,Factorization ,law ,Quantum mechanics ,Strong coupling ,Production (computer science) ,Collider - Abstract
The UA1 Collaboration has recently improved its measurement of the beauty production cross-section by including explicit measurements of b b correlations. Using these data we have determined the strong coupling constant α s . The comparison of the measured cross-section for 2-body final states with O ( α s 3 ) QCD predictions yields a measurement of α s (20 GeV) = 0.145 −0.010 exp −0.016 th +0.012 +0.013 , corresponding to α s ( M z ) = 0.113 −0.006 exp −0.009 th +0.007 +0.008 . This is the first theoretically well-defined measurement of α s from a purely hadronic production process. Evaluating α s from cross-sections at different Q 2 -values we find that the running of α s is needed for internal consistency of the UA1 data.
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- 1996
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