Study of the strong coupling constant using W+ jet processes

Abachi, S. ; Narasimham, V. S. ; et., al (1995) Study of the strong coupling constant using W+ jet processes Physical Review Letters, 75 (18). pp. 3226-3231. ISSN 0031-9007

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Official URL: http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v75/i18/p3226_1

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.3226

Abstract

The ratio of the number of W+1 jet to W+0 jet events is measured with the D0 detector using data from the 1992–93 Tevatron Collider run. For the W→ev channel with a minimum jet ET cutoff of 25 GeV, the experimental ratio is 0.065±0.003(stat)±0.007(syst). Next-to-leading order QCD predictions for various parton distributions agree well with each other and are all over 1 standard deviation below the measurement. Varying the strong coupling constant αs in both the parton distributions and the partonic cross sections simultaneously does not remove this discrepancy.

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