1. Measurement of dijet production in neutral current deep inelastic scattering at high Q**2 and determination of alpha_s
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Breitweg, J, Chekanov, S, Derrick, M, Krakauer, D, Magill, S, Musgrave, B, Pellegrino, A, Repond, J, Stanek, R, Yoshida, R, Mattingly, MCK, Antonioli, P, Bari, G, Basile, M, Bellagamba, L, Boscherini, D, Bruni, A, Bruni, G, Romeo, GC, Cifarelli, L, Cindolo, F, Contin, A, Corradi, M, De Pasquale, S, Giusti, P, Iacobucci, G, Levi, G, Margotti, A, Massam, T, Nania, R, Palmonari, F, Pesci, A, Sartorelli, G, Zichichi, A, Aghuzumtsyan, G, Amelung, C, Brock, I, Coboken, K, Goers, S, Hartmann, H, Heinloth, K, Hilger, E, Irrgang, P, Jakob, HP, Kappes, A, Katz, UF, Kerger, R, Kind, O, Paul, E, Rautenberg, J, Schnurbusch, H, Stifutkin, A, Tandler, J, Voss, KC, Weber, A, Wieber, H, Bailey, DS, Barret, O, Brook, NH, Cole, JE, Foster, B, Heath, GP, Heath, HF, Robins, S, Rodrigues, E, Scott, J, Tapper, RJ, Capua, M, Mastroberardino, A, Schioppa, M, Susinno, G, Jeoung, HY, Kim, JY, Lee, JH, Lim, IT, Ma, KJ, Pac, MY, Caldwell, A, Liu, W, Liu, X, Mellado, B, Paganis, S, Sampson, S, Schmidke, WB, Sciulli, F, Chwastowski, J, Eskreys, A, Figiel, J, Klimek, K, Olkiewicz, K, Przybycien, MB, Stopa, P, Zawiejski, L, Bednarek, B, Jelen, K, Kisielewska, D, Kowal, AM, Kowalski, T, Przybycien, M, Rulikowska-Zarebska, E, Suszycki, L, Szuba, D, Kotanski, A, Bauerdick, LAT, Behrens, U, Bienlein, JK, Borras, K, Chiochia, V, Crittenden, J, Dannheim, D, Desler, K, Drews, G, Fox-Murphy, A, Fricke, U, Goebel, F, Gottlicher, P, Graciani, R, Haas, T, Hain, W, Hartner, GF, Hebbel, K, Hillert, S, Koch, W, Kotz, U, Kowalski, H, Labes, H, Lohr, B, Mankel, R, Martens, J, Martinez, M, Milite, M, Moritz, M, Notz, D, Petrucci, MC, Polini, A, Rohde, M, Savin, AA, Schneekloth, U, Selonke, F, Stonjek, S, Wolf, G, Wollmer, U, Youngman, C, Zeuner, W, Coldewey, C, Viani, ALD, Meyer, A, Schlenstedt, S, Straub, PB, Barbagli, G, Gallo, E, Parenti, A, Pelfer, PG, Bamberger, A, Benen, A, Coppola, N, Eisenhardt, S, Markun, P, Raach, H, Wolfle, S, Bell, M, Bussey, PJ, Doyle, AT, Glasman, C, Lee, SW, Lupi, A, Macdonald, N, McCance, GJ, Saxon, DH, Sinclair, LE, Skillicorn, IO, Waugh, R, Bodmann, B, Gendner, N, Holm, U, Salehi, H, Wick, K, Yildirim, A, Ziegler, A, Carli, T, Garfagnini, A, Geiser, A, Gialas, I, Kcira, D, Lohrmann, E, Goncalo, R, Long, KR, Miller, DB, Tapper, AD, Walker, R, Cloth, P, Filges, D, Ishii, T, Kuze, M, Nagano, K, Tokushuku, K, Yamada, S, Yamazaki, Y, Barakbaev, AN, Boos, EG, Pokrovskiy, NS, Zhautykov, BO, Ahn, SH, Lee, SB, Park, SK, Lim, H, Son, D, Barreiro, F, Garcia, G, Gonzalez, O, Labarga, L, del Peso, J, Redondo, I, Terron, J, Vazquez, M, Barbi, M, Corriveau, F, Padhi, S, Stairs, DG, Wing, M, Tsurugai, T, Antonov, A, Bashkirov, V, Danilov, P, Dolgoshein, BA, Gladkov, D, Sosnovtsev, V, Suchkov, S, Dementiev, RK, Ermolov, PF, Golubkov, YA, Katkov, II, Khein, LA, Korotkova, NA, Korzhavina, IA, Kuzmin, VA, Lukina, OY, Proskuryakov, AS, Shcheglova, LM, Solomin, AN, Vlasov, NN, Zotkin, SA, Bokel, C, Botje, M, Engelen, J, Grijpink, S, Koffeman, E, Kooijman, P, Schagen, S, van Sighem, A, Tassi, E, Tiecke, H, Tuning, N, Velthuis, JJ, Vossebeld, J, Wiggers, L, de Wolf, E, Brummer, N, Bylsma, B, Durkin, LS, Gilmore, J, Ginsburg, CM, Kim, CL, Ling, TY, Boogert, S, Cooper-Sarkar, AM, Devenish, RCE, Grosse-Knetter, J, Matsushita, T, Ruske, O, Sutton, MR, Walczak, R, Bertolin, A, Brugnera, R, Carlin, R, Dal Corso, F, Dusini, S, Limentani, S, Longhin, A, Posocco, M, Stanco, L, Turcato, M, Adamczyk, L, Iannotti, L, Oh, BY, Okrasinski, JR, Saull, PRB, Toothacker, WS, Whitmore, JJ, Iga, Y, D'Agostini, G, Marini, G, Nigro, A, Cormack, C, Hart, JC, McCubbin, NA, Shah, TP, Epperson, D, Heusch, C, Sadrozinski, HFW, Seiden, A, Wichmann, R, Williams, DC, Park, IH, Pavel, N, Abramowicz, H, Dagan, S, Gabareen, A, Kananov, S, Kreisel, A, Levy, A, Abe, T, Fusayasu, T, Kohno, T, Umemori, K, Yamashita, T, Hamatsu, R, Hirose, T, Inuzuka, M, Kitamura, S, Matsuzawa, K, Nishimura, T, Arneodo, M, Cartiglia, N, Cirio, R, Costa, M, Ferrero, MI, Maselli, S, Monaco, V, Peroni, C, Ruspa, M, Sacchi, R, Solano, A, Staiano, A, Bailey, DC, Fagerstroem, CP, Galea, R, Koop, T, Levman, GM, Martin, JF, Mirea, A, Sabetfakhri, A, Butterworth, JM, Gwenlan, C, Hayes, ME, Heaphy, EA, Jones, TW, Lane, JB, West, BJ, Ciborowski, J, Ciesielski, R, Grzelak, G, Nowak, RJ, Pawlak, JM, Pawlak, R, Smalska, B, Tymieniecka, T, Wroblewski, AK, Zakrzewski, JA, Zarnecki, AF, Adamus, M, Gadaj, T, Deppe, O, Eisenberg, Y, Gladilin, LK, Hochman, D, Karshon, U, Badgett, WF, Chapin, D, Cross, R, Foudas, C, Mattingly, S, Reeder, DD, Smith, WH, Vaiciulis, A, Wildschek, T, Wodarczyk, M, Deshpande, A, Dhawan, S, Hughes, VW, Bhadra, S, Catterall, CD, Frisken, WR, Hall-Wilton, R, Khakzad, M, Menary, S, Collaboration, ZEUS, and Zeus (IHEF, IoP, FNWI)
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,MONTE-CARLO GENERATOR ,Proton ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Parton ,Inelastic scattering ,COLOR DIPOLE MODEL ,01 natural sciences ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Nuclear physics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,LEPTON-NUCLEON SCATTERING ,0103 physical sciences ,010306 general physics ,QC ,Quantum chromodynamics ,Physics ,Neutral current ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,ZEUS ,ZEUS BARREL CALORIMETER ,HERA ,Deep inelastic scattering ,CENTRAL TRACKING DETECTOR ,Pair production ,PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS ,PERTURBATION-THEORY ,JET CROSS-SECTIONS ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,HADRON-COLLISIONS ,TO-LEADING ORDER - Abstract
Dijet production has been studied in neutral current deep inelastic e+p scattering for 470 < Q**2 < 20000 GeV**2 with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 38.4 pb**{-1}. Dijet differential cross sections are presented in a kinematic region where both theoretical and experimental uncertainties are small. Next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD calculations describe the measured differential cross sections well. A QCD analysis of the measured dijet fraction as a function of Q**2 allows both a precise determination of alpha_s(M_Z) and a test of the energy-scale dependence of the strong coupling constant. A detailed analysis provides an improved estimate of the uncertainties of the NLO QCD cross sections arising from the parton distribution functions of the proton. The value of alpha_s(M_Z), as determined from the QCD fit, is alpha_s(M_Z) = 0.1166 +- 0.0019 (stat.) {+ 0.0024}_{-0.0033} (exp.)} {+ 0.0057}_{- 0.0044} (th.)., 32 pages including 5 figures and 23 tables. Final version to appear in PLB
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- 2001