Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-09-19
Eur.Phys.J.C59:13-25,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
13 pages, 10 figures. Published version, minor changes
Scientific paper
10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0836-7
We re-evaluate the non-perturbative contribution to the thrust distribution in $e^+e^-\to$ hadrons, in the light of the latest experimental data and the recent NNLO perturbative calculation of this quantity. By extending the calculation to NNLO+NLL accuracy, we perform the most detailed study to date of the effects of non-perturbative physics on this observable. In particular, we investigate how well a model based on a low-scale QCD effective coupling can account for such effects. We find that the difference between the improved perturbative distribution and the experimental data is consistent with a $1/Q$-dependent non-perturbative shift in the distribution, as predicted by the effective coupling model. Best fit values of $\alpha_s(M_Z) = 0.1164^{+0.0028}_{-0.0026}$ and $\alpha_0(2 GeV)=0.59+/-0.03$ are obtained with $\chi^2/d.o.f.=1.09$. This is consistent with NLO+NLL results but the quality of fit is improved. The agreement in $\alpha_0$ is non-trivial because a part of the 1/Q-dependent contribution (the infrared renormalon) is included in the NNLO perturbative correction.
Davison Richard A.
Webber Bryan R.
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