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We present results from a study of hadronic event structure in high energy e+e− interactions using the L3 detector at LEP. A new class of event shape distributions are measured at and above the Z boson pole for light quark (u, d, s, c) flavours. Energy flow correlations are studied for all hadronic events. Next-to-leading-log QCD calculations and QCD models with improved leading-log approximations are compared to data and good agreement is found at the Z-pole whereas some discrepancies are observed at higher centre-of-mass energies.
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L3 Collaboration., Achard, P., Adriani, O. et al. Generalized event shape and energy flow studies in e+e− annihilation at \( \sqrt {s} = 91.2{ - }208.0 \) GeV. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 143 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2011)143
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