Next-to-Leading-Order Corrections to the Production of Heavy-Flavour Jets in e+e- Collisions

Abstract

In this paper we describe the calculation of the process e+e- -> Z/gamma -> QQbar + X, where Q is a heavy quark, at order alpha_s^2.

49 pages, Latex, epsfig, 6 figures. Tables 2 and 3 labels and captions have been fixed

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