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An NLO QCD Analysis of Inclusive Cross-Section and Jet-Production Data from the ZEUS Experiment
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An NLO QCD Analysis of Inclusive Cross-Section and Jet-Production Data from the ZEUS Experiment

ZEUS Collaboration and J Repond
Eur. Phys. J. C, Vol.42(No), pp.1-16
07/01/2005
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s2005-02293-x
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0503274View
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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-production data constrains the gluon and allows an accurate extraction of alpha s(MZ) at NLO; alphas = 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 alphas(MZ) from HERA data alone.

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