Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2000-12-20
Eur.Phys.J.C21:199-210,2001
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
accepted by European Journal of Physics C
Scientific paper
10.1007/s100520100742
Measurements of the QCD colour factors C_A and C_F and of the number of active quark flavours n_f in the process e+e- -> hadrons at high energy are presented. They are based on fits of O(alpha_S**2)+NLLA QCD calculations to distributions of the event shape observables 1-T, C, B_T and B_W measured at centre-of-mass energies from 14 GeV to 189 GeV. Hadronisation effects are approximated with power correction calculations which also depend on the QCD gauge structure. In this approach potential biases from hadronisation models are reduced. Our results for individually measured quantities are n_f = 5.64 +- 1.35, C_A = 2.88 +- 0.27 and C_F = 1.45 +- 0.27 in good agreement with QCD based on the SU(3) symmetry group where n_f=5 for the energies considered here, C_A=3 and C_F=4/3. From simultaneous fits of C_A and C_F we find C_A = 2.84 +- 0.24 and C_F = 1.29 +- 0.18, which is also in good agreement with the QCD expectation.
Bethke Siegfried
Kluth Stefan
Movilla Fernández Pedro A.
Pahl Christoph
Pfeifenschneider P.
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