The QCD Running Coupling and its Measurement

Abstract

In this lecture, after recalling the basic definitions and facts about the running coupling in QCD, I present a critical discussion of the methods for measuring ${\alpha }_s$ and select those that appear to me as the most reliably precise

16 pages, Proceedings of the Corfu Summer Institute 2012 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity", September 8-27, 2012

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