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Extraction of alphas from radiative Upsilon(1S) decays

Nora Brambilla, Xavier Garcia i Tormo, Joan Soto, Antonio Vairo

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0702079

Abstract

We improve on a recent determination of alphas from Gamma(Upsilon(1S)-->X gamma)/Gamma(Upsilon(1S)-->X) with CLEO data by taking into account color octet contributions and avoiding any model dependence in the extraction. We obtain alphas(MUpsilon(1S))= 0.184+0.015-0.014, which corresponds to alphas(MZ)=0.119+0.006-0.005.

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