Home > Three-jet heavy b-quark production rates in $e^{+}e^{-}$ annihilations at the Z peak applied to test the flavour-independence of strong interactions using NLO QCD calculations |
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Title | Three-jet heavy b-quark production rates in $e^{+}e^{-}$ annihilations at the Z peak applied to test the flavour-independence of strong interactions using NLO QCD calculations |
Author(s) | Cabrera, S (Valencia U., IFIC) ; Fuster, J A (Valencia U., IFIC) ; Martí i García, S (CERN) |
Publication | 2001 |
In: | 34th Rencontres de Moriond, Les Arcs, France, 20 - 27 Mar 1999, pp.59-62 |
Subject category | Particle Physics - Experiment |
Abstract | NLO theoretical calculations including mass effects allow performmg experimental tests of QCD. Precise determinations of the ratio abs/audssasb/asuds performed by DELPHI, SLD and OPAL collaborations have confirmed the flavour independence of the strong interactions. Two compatible values of the b-quark running mass, mb(Mz)mb(Mz) as defined in the MS scheme at the Mz scale have been extracted by DELPHI and SLD. |