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The QCD Running Coupling and its Measurement

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-03-26 v1

Abstract

In this lecture, after recalling the basic definitions and facts about the running coupling in QCD, I present a critical discussion of the methods for measuring αs\alpha_s and select those that appear to me as the most reliably precise

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@article{arxiv.1303.6065,
  title  = {The QCD Running Coupling and its Measurement},
  author = {Guido Altarelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.6065},
  year   = {2013}
}

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16 pages, Proceedings of the Corfu Summer Institute 2012 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity", September 8-27, 2012

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