Multijet production in neutral current deep inelastic scattering at HERA and determination of 伪s
European Physical Journal C 44:2 (2005) 183-193
Authors:
S Chekanov, M Derrick, S Magill, S Miglioranzi, B Musgrave, J Repond, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, N Pavel, AG Yag眉es Molina, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, G Cara Romeo, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, S de Pasquale, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, A Margotti, A Montanari, R Nania, F Palmonari, A Pesci, A Polini, L Rinaldi, G Sartorelli, A Zichichi, G Aghuzumtsyan, D Bartsch, I Brock, S Goers, H Hartmann, E Hilger, P Irrgang, HP Jakob, O Kind, U Meyer, E Paul, J Rautenberg, R Renner, KC Voss, M Wang, M Wlasenko, DS Bailey, NH Brook, JE Cole, GP Heath, T Namsoo, S Robins, M Capua, A Mastroberardino, M Schioppa, G Susinno, E Tassi, JY Kim, KJ Ma, M Helbich, Y Ning, Z Ren, WB Schmidke, F Sciulli, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, J Figiel, A Galas, K Olkiewicz, P Stopa, D Szuba, L Zawiejski, L Adamczyk, T Bo艂d, I Grabowska-Bo艂d, D Kisielewska, AM Kowal, J 艁ukasik, M Przybycie艅, L Suszycki, J Szuba, A Kota艅ski, W Slomi艅ski, V Adler, U Behrens, I Bloch, K Borras, G Drews, J Fourletova, A Geiser, D Gladkov, P G枚ttlicher, O Gutsche, T Haas, W Hain, C Horn
Abstract:
Multijet production rates in neutral current deep inelastic scattering have been measured in the range of exchanged boson virtualities 10 < Q 2 < 5000 GeV2. The data were taken at the ep collider HERA with centre-of-mass energy 鈭歴 = 318 GeV using the ZEUS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 82.2pb-1. Jets were identified in the Breit frame using the kT cluster algorithm in the longitudinally invariant inclusive mode. Measurements of differential dijet and trijet cross sections are presented as functions of jet transverse energy (ET,Bjet), pseudorapidity (畏LAB jet) and Q2 with ET,Bjet > 5 GeV and -1 < 畏LABjet < 2.5. Next-to-leading-order QCD calculations describe the data well. The value of the strong coupling constant 伪s(MZ), determined from the ratio of the trijet to dijet cross sections, is 伪s(MZ) = 0.1179 卤 0.0013 (stat.)-0.0046-0.0028 (exp.) -0.0046+0.0064 (th.). 漏 Springer-Verlag / Societ脿 Italiana di Fisica 2005.
