Abstract
Jet production in deep inelastic scattering for 120 < Q2< 3600 GeV2has been studied using data from an integrated luminosity of 3.2 pb-1collected with the ZEUS detector at HERA. Jets are identified with the JADE algorithm. A cut on the angular distribution of parton emission in the γ*-parton centre-of-mass system minimises the experimental and theoretical uncertainties in the determination of the jet rates. The jet rates, when compared to O(αs 2) perturbative QCD calculations, allow a precise determination of αs(Q) in three Q2-intervals. The values are consistent with a running of ifαs(Q), as expected from QCD. Extrapolating to Q = MZ0 αs(MZ0 ) = 0.117 ± 0.005 (stat)-0.005 +0.004(systexp) ± 0.007 (systtheory).
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 201-216 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Physics Letters B |
Volume | 363 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1995 Nov 23 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:2 Also at IROE Florence, Italy. 3 Now at Univ. of Salerno and INFN Napoli, Italy. 4 Supported by EU HCM contract ERB-CHRX-CT93-0376. 5 Now at Miibelhaus Kramm, Essen. 6 Now a self-employed consultant. 7 Now also at University of Torino. * Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. 9 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow. to Presently at Columbia Univ., supported by DAAD/HSPII-AUFE. tl Now at Inst. of Computer Science, Jagellonian Univ., Cracow. I2 Now at Comma-Soft, Bonn. I3 Visitor from Florida State University. l4 Now at Univ. of Mainz. ii Supported by European Community Program PRAXIS XXI. I6 Now at Dr. Seidel Informationssysteme,F rankfurt/M. I7 Now at Inst. of Accelerating Systems & Applications (IASA), Athens. I8 Now at Mercer Management Consulting, Munich. I9 Now at Univ. de Strasbourg.
Funding Information:
search, grant No. 2PO3B09308. 38S upported by the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research, grant No. 2PO3B09208. 3gS upported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). m Supported by the FCAR of Qu&ec, Canada. 4’ Supported by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Science, Research and Technology (BMBF), under contract numbers 056BNl91,056FR19P, 056HH191, 056HH291,056SI791. 42S upportedb y the MINERVA Gesellschaftf ur Forschung GmbH, and by the Israel Academy of Science. 43S upported by the German Israeli Foundation, and by the Israel Academy of Science. 44S upported by the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). 45S upported by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (the Monbusho) and its grants for Scientific Research. 46S upported by the Korean Ministry of Education and Korea Science and Engineering Foundation. 47S upportedb y the NetherlandsF oundation for Research on Matter (FOM). 48S upported by the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research, grants No. 115/E-343/SPUB/PO3/109/95, 2PO3B 244 08~02, ~03, pO4 and ~05, and the Foundation for Polish-German Collaboration (proj. No. 506/92). 4gS upportedb y the Polish StateC ommitteef or Scientific Research (grant No. 2 PO3B 083 08). 5oP artially supportedb y the German Federal Ministry for Education and Science, Research and Technology (BMBF). 5’ Supported by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Science, Researcha nd Technology (BMBF) , and the Fund of Fundamental Research of Russian Ministry of Science and Education and by INTAS-Grant No. 93-63. 52S upported by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science through funds provided by CICYT. 53S upported by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. 54S upported by the US Departmentof Energy. 55S upported by the US National Science Foundation.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics