Abstract
A study of the lateral development of jets of hadrons produced in electron-positron annihilation has been used to determine the strong coupling constant s. Data were obtained with the MAC detector at the SLAC e+e- storage ring PEP at s=29 GeV. Based on the parton calculations of Gottschalk and Shatz, a value for s of 0.1330.005(stat)0.009(syst) has been determined for string fragmentation, and 0.1120.008(stat)0.007(syst) for an independent-jet model. © 1989 The American Physical Society.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1385-1396 |
Journal | Physical Review D |
Volume | 40 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 1989 |