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Determination of the strong coupling constant using subjet multiplicities in Neutral Current Deep Inelastic Scattering

O. Gonzalez

hep-exarXiv:hep-ex/0111072

Abstract

The internal structure of the jets produced in neutral current interactions for Q2>125 GeV2 has been studied using the subjet multiplicity with the ZEUS detector at HERA. Jets are identified in the laboratory frame by applying the longitudinally invariant kT-cluster algorithm. Next-to-leading order QCD calculations have been obtained and compared to the data; a good agreement has been observed in the region where hadron-to-parton corrections are small, ET,jet> 25 GeV. In this region, the strong coupling constant is extracted and the resulting value is alphas (MZ)=0.1185 +/- 0.0016 (stat.) +0.0067-0.0048 (syst.) +0.0089-0.0071 (th.).

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