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# TOPICAL REVIEW: Event shapes in e+e- annihilation and deep inelastic scattering

(Impact Factor: 2.84). 05/2004; 30(5). DOI: 10.1088/0954-3899/30/5/R01
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ABSTRACT This review examines the status of event-shape studies in e+e- annihilation and DIS. It includes discussions of perturbative calculations, of various approaches to modelling hadronization and of comparisons to data.

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• "In the recent years the subject has attracted a lot of attention due to the very precise extraction of the strong coupling constant α s from fits to the tail of the thrust distribution [1] [2] [3] and moments of the thrust distribution [4] [5] 1 . Excellent reviews on event shapes are [7] [8], where the definition of the most commonly used can be found. "
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• "They have also been used to extract moments of the non-perturbative coupling, as reviewed in refs. [1] and [4] (and references therein). Despite the fact that the LEP collider was a clean environment to " measure " QCD using event/jet shapes, they will still be an important tool at the LHC, particularly jet shapes and jet substructure which are expected to be invaluable tools in the search for new physics due to the final state being dominantly jets [7] [9]. "
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• "Resummed results for jet rates have been also obtained [27] [28] [29] [30] [31]. High-quality data, primarily from LEP measurements at the Z-pole, open up an opportunity to perform very accurate studies in jet physics [32]. Since, by now, gross features of QCD are well understood, the interest shifts towards subtle details which can be revealed only through dealing with complicated final states and improving the accuracy of theoretical predictions. "
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