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Oriented Event Shapes for massive Quarks

In this work we present the computation of so-called oriented event-shape distributions for massive quarks up to $\mathcal{O}(α_s)$, along with the total oriented cross section in which one does not look at the geometric properties of the momentum distribution for particles in the final state. We consider the vector and axial-vector currents, and for the former, we find a non-vanishing result at $\mathcal{O}(α_s^0)$ that translates into a significant enhancement as compared to the massless approximation. Our results are an important ingredient for analyses that aim to determine the strong coupling with high accuracy.