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$m_b(m_Z)$ from jet production at the $Z$ peak in the Cambridge algorithm

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We consider the production of heavy quark jets at the ZZ-pole at the next-to-leading order (NLO) using the {\it Cambridge jet-algorithm}. We study the effects of the quark mass in two- and three-jet observables and the uncertainty due to unknown higher order corrections as well as due to fragmentation. We found that the three-jet observable has remarkably small NLO corrections, which are stable with respect to the change of the renormalization scale, when expressed in terms of the {\it running quark mass} at the mZm_Z-scale. The size of the hadronization uncertainty for this observable remains reasonably small and is very stable with respect to changes in the jet resolution parameter ycy_c.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9807489,
  title  = {$m_b(m_Z)$ from jet production at the $Z$ peak in the Cambridge algorithm},
  author = {Mikhail Bilenky and Susana Cabrera and Joan Fuster and Salvador Marti and German Rodrigo and Arcadi Santamaria},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9807489},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, 3 figures. Enlarged version including a section on hadronisation corrections. The list of authors has also changed