Quark-mass effects for jet production in e+e− collisions at the next-to-leading order: results and applications Original Research Article

We present a detailed description of our calculation of next-to-leading order QCD corrections to heavy quark production in e+e− collisions including mass effects. In particular, we study the observables R3bl and D2bl in the E, EM, JADE and DURHAM jet-clustering algorithms and show how one can use these observables to obtain mb(mz) from data at the Z peak.