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An NLO QCD analysis of inclusive cross-section and jet-production data from the ZEUS experiment

ZEUS Collaboration

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0503274

Abstract

The ZEUS inclusive differential cross-section data from HERA, for charged and neutral current processes taken with e+ and e- beams, together with differential cross-section data on inclusive jet production in e+ p scattering and dijet production in γp scattering, have been used in a new NLO QCD analysis to extract the parton distribution functions of the proton. The input of jet data constrains the gluon and allows an accurate extraction of αs(MZ) at NLO; αs(MZ) = 0.1183 0.0028(exp.) 0.0008(model) An additional uncertainty from the choice of scales is estimated as 0.005. This is the first extraction of αs(MZ) from HERA data alone.

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