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Beyond the measurement of $R_\ell$ at the Z pole, another interesting possibility for the $\alpha_{\rm s}$ determination is to use to use the W hadronic width as measured from W-pair events at and above 161 GeV. The quantity of interest is the branching ratio $B_{\rm had}= \Gamma_{\rm W \to hadrons}/\Gamma^tot_{\rm W}$, which can extract be extracted by measuring the fractions of WW events to the
fully leptonic, semi-leptonic and fully hadronic final states:
\begin{equation}
{\rm BR}({\rm
WW} W^+W^-} \to \ell^+ \nu \ell’^- \bar{\nu}) = (1-B_{\rm had})^2 \\
{\rm BR}({\rm
WW} W^+W^-} \to \ell^+ \nu {\rm q\bar{q}’}) = (1-B_{\rm had})\times B_{\rm had} \\
{\rm BR}({\rm
WW} W^+W^-} \to {\rm q\bar{q}' q’’\bar{q}’’’})= B_{\rm had}^2
\end{equation}
The LEP2
measurement of $B_h data taken at centre-of-mass energies ranging from 183 to 209 GeV led to $B_{\rm had} = 67.41 \pm
0.27$ [10] 0.27$~\cite{1302.3415}, a measurement with a 0.4\% relative precision. This measurement that was limited by WW event statistics of about $4 × 10^4$ events. With
$10^8 over $2 \times 10^8 W$ pairs expected at TLEP
at $\sqrt{s} =$ 161, 240 and
assuming that selection efficiency uncertainties scale with statistics, 350~GeV, it may
therefore be possible to reduce the
relative uncertainty on
$B_h$ $B_{\rm had}$ by a factor
$~ $\sim 70$
down to $5\times 10^{-5}$, and thus the absolute uncertainty on
$\alpha_s$ $\alpha_{\rm s}$ to $\pm
0.0002$. 0.00015$.
This
measurement is
an interesting possibility especially since complementary that that performed with the Z hadronic width, because the sensitivity to electroweak effects is completely different in
$B_h$ than $B_{\rm had}$ and in $R_\ell$.
The In particular, the coupling of the W to pairs of quarks and leptons is straightforwardly given by the CKM matrix elements with little sensitivity to any new particles.
{\em A reasonable target for the measurement of $\alpha_s (m^2_{\rm W})$ with the runs at and above 161 GeV with TLEP is therefore a precision better than 0.0002.}