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@ARTICLE{Acciarri:332044,
      author       = {Acciarri, M. and Adriani, O. and Aguilar-Benitez, M. and
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      collaboration = {{L3 Collaboration}},
      title        = {{QCD} studies and determination of $\alpha_s$ in $e^+ e^-$
                      collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 161 {G}e{V} and 172 {G}e{V}},
      journal      = {Physics letters / B},
      volume       = {404},
      number       = {3-4},
      issn         = {0370-2693},
      address      = {Amsterdam},
      publisher    = {North-Holland Publ.},
      reportid     = {PUBDB-2017-08332, CERN-PPE-97-042. CERN-PPE-97-42},
      pages        = {390 - 402},
      year         = {1997},
      note         = {DESY-Zeuthen; L3 Collaboration},
      abstract     = {We present a study of the structure of hadronic events
                      recorded by the L3 detector at LEP at the center of mass
                      energies of 161 and 172 GeV. The data sample corresponds to
                      an integrated luminosity of 21.25 pb −1 collected during
                      the high energy runs of 1996. The distributions of event
                      shape variables and the energy dependence of their mean
                      values are well reproduced by QCD models. From a comparison
                      of the data with resummed O ( α s 2 ) QCD calculations, we
                      determine the strong coupling constant at the two energies.
                      Combining this with our earlier measurements we find that
                      the strong coupling constant decreases with increasing
                      energy as expected in QCD.},
      keywords     = {electron positron: colliding beams (INSPIRE) / electron
                      positron: annihilation (INSPIRE) / jet: electroproduction
                      (INSPIRE) / hadron: multiple production (INSPIRE) / quantum
                      chromodynamics: perturbation theory (INSPIRE) / event shape
                      analysis (INSPIRE) / energy dependence (INSPIRE) / strong
                      interaction: coupling constant (INSPIRE) / L3 (INSPIRE) /
                      experimental results (INSPIRE) / CERN LEP Stor (INSPIRE) /
                      161-172 GeV-cms (INSPIRE)},
      cin          = {DESY(-2012)},
      ddc          = {530},
      cid          = {$I:(DE-H253)DESY_-2012_-20170516$},
      pnm          = {899 - ohne Topic (POF3-899)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-899},
      experiment   = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)NOSPEC-20140101},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)29 / PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
      UT           = {WOS:A1997XK52600025},
      doi          = {10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00647-3},
      url          = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/332044},
}