The back-to-back region in e+e− energy-energy correlation

We consider the back-to-back region in the energy-energy correlation in e+e− collisions. We present the explicit expression of the O(αS2) logarithmically enhanced contributions up to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. We study the impact of the results in a detailed comparison with precise LEP and SLC data. We find that, when hadronization effects are taken into account as is customarily done in QCD analysis in e+e− annihilations, the extracted value of αS(MZ) is in good agreement with the current world average.