@article{3075696, title = "Determination of 55-155-155-1in second order QCD from hadronic Z decays", author = "Abreu, P. and Adam, W. and Adami, F. and Adye, T. and Akesson, T. and Alekseev, G.D. and Allen, P. and Almehed, S. and Alvsvaag, S.J. and Amaldi, U. and Anassontzis, E. and Antilogus, P. and Apel, W.-D. and Apsimon, R.J. and Åsman, B. and Augustin, J.-E. and Augustinus, A. and Baillon, P. and Bambade, P. and Barao, F. and Barate, R. and Barbiellini, G. and Bardin, D.Y. and Baroncelli, A. and Barring, O. and Bartl, W. and Bates, M.J. and Battaglia, M. and Baubillier, M. and Becks, K.-H. and Beeston, C.J. and Begalli, M. and Beilliere, P. and Belokopytov, Yu. and Beltran, P. and Benedic, D. and Benlloch, J.M. and Berggren, M. and Bertrand, D. and Bianchi, F. and Bilenky, M.S. and Billoir, P. and Bjarne, J. and Bloch, D. and Blyth, S. and Bocci, V. and Bogolubov, P.N. and Bolognese, T. and Bonapart, M. and Bonesini, M. and Bonivento, W. and Booth, P.S.L. and Borgeaud, P. and 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SECTION C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS", year = "1992", volume = "54", number = "1", pages = "55-73", issn = "0170-9739", doi = "10.1007/BF01881708", abstract = "Distributions of event shape variables obtained from 120600 hadronic Z decays measured with the DELPHI detector are compared to the predictions of QCD based event generators. Values of the strong coupling constant αs are derived as a function of the renormalization scale from a quantitative analysis of eight hadronic distributions. The final result, αs(MZ), is based on second order perturbation theory and uses two hadronization corrections, one computed with a parton shower model and the other with a QCD matrix element model. © 1992 Springer-Verlag." }