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Jet rates in electron-positron annihilation at O(α_s^3) in QCD

Abstract

We compute production rates for two, three, four and five jets in electron-positron annihilation at the third order in the QCD coupling constant. At this order, three-jet production is described to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbation theory while the two-jet rate is obtained at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (NLO). Our results yield an improved perturbative description of the dependence of jet multiplicity on the jet resolution parameter, , particularly at small values of .