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Effect of quark masses on the perturbative thrust

Rahul Basu

  • Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794

Phys. Rev. D 29, 2642 – Published 1 June, 1984

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.29.2642

Abstract

We study the effect of quark masses on the thrust to O(αs) in QCD. We find the mass corrections to be significant and show that they reduce the estimated nonperturbative effects. They also allow realistic limits to be placed on the parameter Λ.

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