Status of the Strong Coupling Constant

Abstract

The current status of measurements of the strong coupling constant from different reactions is reviewed. Including new results presented at the 1996 ICHEP conference, a global average alpha_s(Mz) = 0.118 +- 0.003 is obtained.

18 pages, 6 figures, Plenary talk given at the XXVIII Intern. Conf. on High Energy Physics, Warsaw, July 25-31, 1996

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