Abstract
A new measurement of inclusive-jet cross sections in the Breit frame in neutral current deep inelastic scattering using the ZEUS detector at the HERA collider is presented. The data were taken in the years 2004–2007 at a centre-of-mass energy of 318GeV and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 347pb-1 . The jets were reconstructed using the kt -algorithm in the Breit reference frame. They have been measured as a function of the squared momentum transfer, Q2 , and the transverse momentum of the jets in the Breit frame, p⊥ , Breit . The measured jet cross sections are compared to previous measurements and to perturbative QCD predictions. The measurement has been used in a next-to-next-to-leading-order QCD analysis to perform a simultaneous determination of parton distribution functions of the proton and the strong coupling, resulting in a value of αs(MZ2)=0.1142±0.0017(experimental/fit)-0.0007+0.0006(model/parameterisation)-0.0004+0.0006(scale) , whose accuracy is improved compared to similar measurements. In addition, the running of the strong coupling is demonstrated using data obtained at different scales.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1082 |
Journal | European Physical Journal C |
Volume | 83 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 27 Nov 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:A. Bertolin, S. Dusini, L. Stanco, R. Brugnera, A. Garfagnini, A. Longhin, A. Bruni, M. Corradi, A. Polini, M. Ruspa, A. Solano: supported by the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). I. Brock, E. Paul: supported by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), under contract No. 05 H09PDF. N. H. Brook, M. Wing, P. J. Bussey, I. O. Skillicorn, A. M. Cooper-Sarkar, B. Foster, C. Gwenlan: supported by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK. C. D. Catterall supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). E. Gallo, R. Klanner, N. Kovalchuk, E. Lohrmann: supported by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), under contract No. 05h09GUF, and the SFB 676 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). M. Kuze, K. Nagano, A. Quintero, K. Tokushuku, S. Yamada, Y. Yamazaki: supported by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and its grants for Scientific Research. A. Levy: supported by the Israel Science Foundation. J.D. Nam, B. Surrow: supported in part by the Office of Nuclear Physics within the U.S. DOE Office of Science. N. Sherrill: supported in part by the Science and Technology Facilities Council grant number ST/T006048/1. N. Sherrill: supported by the Polish National Science Centre (NCN) grant no. DEC-2014/13/B/ST2/02486. W.A.T. Wan Abdullah: supported by HIR grant UM.C/625/1/HIR/149 and UMRG grants RU006-2013, RP012A-13AFR and RP012B-13AFR from Universiti Malaya, and ERGS grant ER004-2012A from the Ministry of Education, Malaysia. B. Foster: supported by a Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellowship. M. Wing: also supported by DESY, Hamburg, Germany.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Engineering (miscellaneous)
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)