Measurement of the strong coupling constant from inclusive jet production at the Tevatron (p)over-barp collider

Affolder, T. et al. (2002) Measurement of the strong coupling constant from inclusive jet production at the Tevatron (p)over-barp collider. Physical Review Letters, 88(4), art 042001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.042001)

Abstract

We report a measurement of the strong coupling constant, alpha(s)(M-Z), extracted from inclusive jet production in p (p) over bar collisions at root(s) = 1800 GeV. The QCD prediction for the evolution of alpha(s) with jet transverse energy E-T is tested over the range 40 lt E-T lt 450 GeV using E-T for the renormalization scale. The data show good agreement with QCD in the region below 250 GeV. The value of as at the mass of the Z(0) boson averaged over the range 40 lt E-T lt 250 GeV is found to be alpha(s)(M-Z) = 0.1178 +/- 0.0001(stat)(- 0.0095)(+0.0081)(expt. syst). The associated theoretical uncertainties are mainly due to the choice of renormalization scale ((+6%)(-4%)) and input parton distribution functions (5%).

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: D'Auria, Dr Saverio and Bell, Dr William
• Authors: Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amidei, D., Anikeev, K., Antos, J., Apollinari, G., Arisawa, T., Artikov, A., Asakawa, T., Ashmanskas, W., Azfar, F., Azzi-Bacchetta, P., Bacchetta, N., Bachacou, H., Bailey, S., de Barbaro, P., Barbaro-Galtieri, A., Barnes, V.E., Barnett, B.A., Baroiant, S., Barone, M., Bauer, G., Bedeschi, F., Belforte, S., Bell, W.H., Bellettini, G., Bellinger, J., Benjamin, D., Bensinger, J., Beretvas, A., Berge, J.P., Berryhill, J., Bhatti, A., Binkley, M., Bisello, D., Bishai, M., Blair, R.E., Blocker, C., Bloom, K., Blumenfeld, B., Blusk, S.R., Bocci, A., Bodek, A., Bokhari, W., Bolla, G., Bonushkin, Y., Bortoletto, D., Boudreau, J., Brandl, A., van den Brink, S., Bromberg, C., Brozovic, M., Brubaker, E., Bruner, N., Buckley-Geer, E., Budagov, J., Budd, H.S., Burkett, K., Busetto, G., Byon-Wagner, A., Byrum, K.L., Cabrera, S., Calafiura, P., Campbell, M., Carithers, W., Carlson, J., Carlsmith, D., Caskey, W., Castro, A., Cauz, D., Cerri, A., Chan, A.W., Chang, P.S., Chang, P.T., Chapman, J.N., Chen, C., Chen, Y.C., Cheng, M.T., Chertok, M., Chiarelli, G., Chirikov-Zorin, I., Chlachidze, G., Chlebana, F., Christofek, L., Chu, M.L., Chung, Y.S., Ciobanu, C.I., Clark, A.G., Colijn, A.P., Connolly, A., Convery, M., Conway, J., Cordelli, M., Cranshaw, J., Cropp, R., Culbertson, R., Dagenhart, D., D'Auria, S., DeJongh, F., Dell'Agnello, S., Dell'Orso, M., Demers, S., Demortier, L., Deninno, M., Derwent, P.F., Devlin, T., Dittmann, J.R., Dominguez, A., Donati, S., Done, J., D'Onofrio, M., Dorigo, T., Eddy, N., Einsweiler, K., Elias, J.E., Engels, E., Erbacher, R., Errede, D., Errede, S., Fan, Q., Fang, H.C., Feild, R.G., Fernandez, J.P., Ferretti, C., Field, R.D., Fiori, I., Flaugher, B., Foster, G.W., Franklin, M., Freeman, J., Friedman, J., Fukui, Y., Furic, I., Galeotti, S., Gallas, A., Gallinaro, M., Gao, T., Garcia-Sciveres, M., Garfinkel, A.F., Gatti, P., Gay, C., Gerdes, D.W., Giannetti, P., Giromini, P., Glagolev, V., Glenzinski, D., Gold, M., Goldstein, J., Gorelov, I., Goshaw, A.T., Gotra, Y., Goulianos, K., Green, C., Grim, G., Gris, P., Groer, L., Grosso-Pilcher, C., Guenther, M., Guillian, G., da Costa, J.G., Haas, R.M., Haber, C., Hahn, S.R., Hall, C., Handa, T., Handler, R., Hao, W., Happacher, F., Hara, K., Hardman, A.D., Harris, R.M., Hartmann, F., Hatakeyama, K., Hauser, J., Heinrich, J., Heiss, A., Herndon, M., Hill, C., Hoffman, K.D., Holck, C., Hollebeek, R., Holloway, L., Huffman, B.T., Hughes, R., Huston, J., Huth, J., Ikeda, H., Incandela, J., Introzzi, G., Ivanov, A., Iwai, J., Iwata, Y., James, E., Jones, M., Joshi, U., Kambara, H., Kamon, T., Kaneko, T., Karr, K., Kartal, S., Kasha, H., Kato, Y., Keaffaber, T.A., Kelley, K., Kelly, M., Khazins, D., Kikuchi, T., Kilminster, B., Kim, B.J., Kim, D.H., Kim, H.S., Kim, M.J., Kim, S.B., Kim, S.H., Kim, Y.K., Kirby, M., Kirk, M., Kirsch, L., Klimenko, S., Koehn, P., Kondo, K., Konigsberg, J., Korn, A., Korytov, A., Kovacs, E., Kroll, J., Kruse, M., Kuhlmann, S.E., Kurino, K., Kuwabara, T., Laasanen, A.T., Lai, N., Lami, S., Lammel, S., Lancaster, J., Lancaster, M., Lander, R., Lath, A., Latino, G., LeCompte, T., Lee, A.M., Lee, K., Leone, S., Lewis, J.D., Lindgren, M., Liss, T.M., Liu, J.B., Liu, Y.C., Litvintsev, D.O., Lobban, O., Lockyer, N., and Loken, J.
• Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: Physical Review Letters
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• ISSN: 0031-9007
• ISSN (Online): 1079-7114