Model-Independent Second-Order Determination of the Strong-Coupling Constant
- 27 June 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 50 (26) , 2051-2053
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.50.2051
Abstract
With use of the MARK-J detector at GeV 21 000 events have been collected. By measurement of the asymmetry in angular energy correlations the strong coupling constant is determined, in complete second order, and independent of the fragmentation models and QCD cutoff values used.
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