51. Measurement of the direct photon spectrum inΥ(1S)decays
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D. B. MacFarlane, A. J. Weinstein, Tomasz Skwarnicki, S. Schuh, H. N. Nelson, S. J. Richichi, D. H. Miller, P. Gaidarev, J. Mevissen, V. Savinov, Y. Kwon, Harold S. Park, Xingjiang Zhou, Alice Bean, M. Yurko, J. Kandaswamy, D. Z. Besson, M. Dickson, M. Athanas, K. D. Fisher, Yurii V. Mukhin, R. Kutschke, L. P. Perera, Philip Baringer, D. Peterson, Z. Ling, I. P.J. Shipsey, S. F. Schaffner, Yurii Maravin, C. Qiao, Xiangjun Xing, D. Y.J. Kim, M. Sivertz, Anders Ryd, N. Kwak, W. S. Brower, K. K. Gan, D. He, M. Bishai, R. Davis, D. M. Coffman, Sz Márka, P. Pomianowski, John Yelton, M.A. Palmer, J. Urheim, Richard L. Greene, E. H. Thorndike, P. I. Hopman, B. K. Heltsley, W. R. Ross, J. Zheng, M. Sung, S. Menary, D. Fujino, C. Bebek, J. Fast, Ilya Kravchenko, G. D. Gollin, D. Roberts, C. D. Jones, Michael Wood, I. Volobouev, D. Coppage, G. Bonvicini, P. C. Kim, R. Ehrlich, J. W. Hinson, V. Shelkov, S. Kotov, J. P. Alexander, G. E. Gladding, T. Hart, S. E. Csorna, S. Patton, A. Freyberger, J. Roy, Ryszard Stroynowski, M. Gao, Vivek Sharma, R. Janicek, A. Soffer, S. Anderson, A. Smith, H. P. Paar, R. Fulton, P. Skubic, C.Y. Prescott, K. M. Ecklund, A. H. Mahmood, H. Yamamoto, Karl Berkelman, A. Efimov, Sacha E Kopp, K. Kinoshita, M. S. Alam, T. Riehle, Sheldon Stone, D. S. Crowcroft, R. Wanke, A. Wolf, K. Honscheid, D. Gibaut, G. W. Brandenburg, R. S. Galik, Daniel W. Bliss, D. L. Kreinick, K. W. McLean, P. Rankin, L. Gibbons, C. Ward, Paul Avery, Kenneth Bloom, Jianqiao Ye, T. E. Browder, J. L. Rodriguez, D. Ugolini, Frank Würthwein, M. Lattery, G. Viehhauser, K. Cho, J. Gronberg, N. Katayama, E. Nordberg, S.C. Timm, S. Roberts, S. W. Gray, M. Chadha, J. E. Duboscq, N. B. Mistry, G. S. Ludwig, N. Hancock, J. S. Miller, J. J. Thaler, F. R. Wappler, G. Eigen, H. Marsiske, E. Gerndt, R. M. Hans, F. Frasconi, Dj Lange, A. Undrus, K. W. Edwards, H. Kagan, S. B. Athar, Y. S. Gao, A. D. Foland, V. Fadeyev, B. H. Behrens, M. B. Spencer, M. Ogg, F. Li, T. K. Nelson, M. Lohner, S. Schrenk, Yanwen Liu, J. G. Smith, Shengfeng Yang, C. P. Jessop, S. D. Johnson, I. Narsky, G. C. Moneti, Marina Artuso, M. M. Zoeller, W. T. Ford, R. J. Morrison, Mats A Selen, R. D. Kass, R. Ammar, R. Balest, T. E. Coan, I. C. Lai, H. Severini, S. Chan, A. Anastassov, A. J. Sadoff, I. Korolkov, E. I. Shibata, C. O'Grady, M. A. Marsh, R. Wang, E. Johnson, J. Staeck, Jungil Lee, N. Menon, G. Masek, Juliet Ritchie Patterson, R. A. Briere, H. A. Cho, D. L. Hartill, R. Poling, C. R. Ng, C. Darling, Michael S. Witherell, B. E. Berger, M. Goldberg, J. D. Richman, B. C. Barish, J. Masui, Vivek Jain, Alain Bellerive, Y. Li, P. M. Patel, D. Riley, S. Blinov, D. M. Asner, J. Bartelt, M. L. Perl, Yuichi Kubota, Richard Wilson, T. Bergfeld, D. Cinabro, B. Nemati, B. Gittelman, R. Godang, T. Lee, M. Schmidtler, P. S. Drell, R. Elia, K. Lingel, R. Mountain, J. Ernst, D. G. Cassel, J. J. O'Neill, I. Karliner, and B. I. Eisenstein
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Physics ,Combinatorics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle decay ,Photon ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Electron–positron annihilation ,0103 physical sciences ,Strong coupling ,Cornell Electron Storage Ring ,Atomic physics ,010306 general physics ,01 natural sciences - Abstract
Using data taken with the CLEO II detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, we have determined the ratio of branching fractions: ${R}_{\ensuremath{\gamma}}\ensuremath{\equiv}\ensuremath{\Gamma}(\ensuremath{\Upsilon}(1S)\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\gamma}\mathrm{gg})/\ensuremath{\Gamma}(\ensuremath{\Upsilon}(1S)\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\mathrm{ggg})=[2.75\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.04(\mathrm{stat})\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.15(\mathrm{syst})]%$. From this ratio, we have determined the QCD scale parameter ${\ensuremath{\Lambda}}_{\overline{\mathrm{MS}}}$ (defined in the modified minimal subtraction scheme) to be ${\ensuremath{\Lambda}}_{\overline{\mathrm{MS}}}=233\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}11\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}59$ MeV, from which we determine a value for the strong coupling constant ${\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}{(M}_{\ensuremath{\Upsilon}(1S)})=0.163\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.002\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.014$, or ${\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}{(M}_{Z})=0.110\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.001\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.007$.
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