Precision studies of QCD at electron-positron colliders are based on measurements of event shapes and jet rates. To match the high experimental accuracy, theoretical predictions to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD are needed for a reliable interpretation of the data. We report the first calculation of NNLO corrections O(alpha_s^3) to three-jet production and related event shapes, and discuss their phenomenological impact.
@article{arxiv.0709.4221,
title = {NNLO QCD corrections to event shape variables in electron positron annihilation},
author = {A. Gehrmann-De Ridder and T. Gehrmann and E. W. N. Glover and G. Heinrich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.4221},
year = {2008}
}
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Contributed to 2007 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Manchester, England 19-25 July 2007